[Sca-cooks] eating crabs... was period crab recipes

[Adele de Maisieres]

Sharron Albert wrote:

>>Aussies tend to boil the crabs and them eat em out of the
>>shell, using whatever we can find to help crack them
>>(Hammer, pliers, little brothers forehead (long story...)).
>>    
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>We don't have soft-shelled crab up here either. Just Dungenese and 
>Kings. And I prefer scissors to any other method, much to the 
>mortification of my mother when they last visited and I pulled the 
>scissors out of my purse at the restaurant. I did, however, get the 
>crab meat out faster than she did with the nutcracker...
>  
>

Yum.  I haven't really been following this thread, because mostly I look 
at the subject line and think, "how much of a recipe do you need?".
1. Boil crab. 
2. Dip in a little melted butter, if liked.  Butter may be seasoned with 
a little garlic or mace.

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Adele de Maisieres

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