[Sca-cooks] Crab recipe was Intro from new person and my first quest for the perfect recipe...

[Johnna Holloway]

//To dresse a Crabe. Fyrste take awaye all the legges and the heades, 
and then take all the fysh out of the shelle, and make the shell as 
cleane as ye canne, and putte the meate into a dysche, and butter it 
uppon a chafyng dysche of coles and putte therto synamon and suger and a 
lytle vyneger, and when ye haue chafed it and seasoned it, then putte 
the meate in the shelle agayne and bruse the heades, and set them upon 
the dysche syde and serue it.

This can be found at 
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/thomas.gloning/tx/bookecok.htm
The book that it is from is a favorite of mine. A Proper Newe Booke of 
Cokerye
was first published in 1545. This is from the undated (circa 1557) edition.

I am not sure about trying to restuff all 10 pounds of the crab back 
into the legs of
the king crab, but maybe one or two could be done.

Welcome to the list.

Johnnae llyn Lewis

Marion Waldegrave wrote:
> Well the main theme is Love, since it is our Hearts Revel, there for  
> something that is exotic... and from a magical standpoint, the idea  
> of honey involved would be grand!  Think it can be adapted for king  
> crab legs?  The rules are that it has to be period, and not my own,  
> just something that falls within the time frame for SCA period.  At  
> least that is how i understand it... Oh that would be lovely!!
>
> Marion
>