Maryland Stuffed Shad Roe

Name: Maryland Stuffed Shad Roe
Yield: Serves Four
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: butter, 80 g (3 oz); lump crab meat, 220 g (½ lb); melted butter, 1½ tbs; flour 1½ tbs; single cream, 1 cup;; melted butter, 1½ tbs; flour 1½ tbs; single cream, 1 cup;; melted butter, 1½ tbs; flour 1½ tbs; single cream, 1 cup;; salt and pepper; salt and pepper; shad roes, 4 pairs

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

North Atlantic Seafood

By Alan Davidson

Published 1980

About

Plain shad roe is excellent; but there are occasions when one wants to turn it into something more grand. This recipe based on one in the bicentennial edition of Maryland’s Way, meets the need.

Ingredients

shad roes, 4 pairs
butter, 80 g (3 oz)

Americas
United States
Maryland
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Poach the roes, drain them and let them cool. Then fry them in the butter in a heavy skillet until they are a rich brown on both sides.

Make the cream sauce by stirring the flour into the melted butter over a gentle heat. Gradually add the cream, stirring, until the sauce has thickened. Season it and add the crab meat to it.

Split each half-roe open, taking care not to cut it co