Partan, Dressed Hot

Name: Partan, Dressed Hot
Yield: Serves Two to Four
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: soft breadcrumbs, 2 tbs; nutmeg, 2 pinches; salt and pepper; salt and pepper; butter, 15 g (½ oz); made mustard, 2 tsp; lemon juice or wine vinegar, 4 tbs; lemon juice or wine vinegar, 4 tbs; a large crab

Preparation info

Serves
Two to Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

North Atlantic Seafood

By Alan Davidson

Published 1980

About

A partan is a crab (Cancer pagurus). These can be very big. The number of servings will depend on the size. The quantities given here are right for one measuring 20 cm (8 inches) across the carapace, which will serve four.

Ingredients

a large crab
salt and pepper
nutmeg, 2 pinches
soft breadcrumbs,

Europe
United Kingdom
Fish course
Pie
Pescatarian

Method

Cook the crab as usual and let it cool then remove all the edible parts and chop them up in a bowl. Add the remaining ingredients, after chopping up the butter, and beat all well together.

Wash the shell (carapace) very carefully and polish it inside and out with a cloth dipped in a teaspoon of salad oil. Then pack the mixture into it and brown it under the grill (the shell, of course,