She-crab Soup

A crab soup made from female, berried crabs* has a flavour superior to and a texture slightly more glutinous than an ordinary crab soup. It is, however, against the regulations to take berried crabs. I probed into this dilemma while in South Carolina and found that a common interpretation of the regulations was that they applied to commercial crabbing only. It also appeared that some law-abiding people make she-crab soup from plain crabs with the addit