Shrimp, Crab, or Crayfish Boil

Preparation info
  • Yields about

    1 cup

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Bill Neal's Southern Cooking

By Bill Neal

Published 1985

  • About

Through there came a smell of garlic and cloves and red pepper, a blast of hot cloud escaped from a cauldron they could see now on a stove at the back of the other room. A massive back, presumably female, with a twist of gray hair on top, stood with a ladle akimbo. A young man joined her and with his fingers stole something out of the pot and ate it. At Baba’s they were boiling shrimp.

Eudora Welty, “No Place for You, My Love”