Name: Hot Buttered Crab
Yield: Serve 4 to 6 unless otherwise stated.
Ingredients: 4 medium-sized cooked crabs; Salt and freshly ground pepper; ¼ cup dry white vermouth; Fresh white bread crumbs; ½ cup (1 stick) butter; Tabasco sauce; Juice of 1 lemon; Good pinch of freshly grated nutmeg; 2 anchovy fillets; Small bunch of parsley, minced; 1 small clove of garlic

Preparation info

Serve
4 to 6
unless otherwise stated.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Two Fat Ladies Obsessions

By Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 1999

About

Ingredients

4 medium-sized cooked crabs
1 small clove of garlic
2 anchovy fillets

Method

Extract all the meat from the crabs. Wash and reserve the shells.

Mince the garlic and anchovies, then fry them gently in a little of the butter for about 3 minutes. Add the vermouth, lemon juice, and remainder of the butter, and season with the nutmeg and a good dash of Tabasco to taste. Stir in half of the bread crumbs and the crab meat. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Stir to b

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