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Crab Butter

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Must
  2. a pound of butter
  3. a tablespoonful of water
  4. Relish
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Pick the meat from the claws of a large crab.
  2. Bruise it well in a mortar, and mix it with a little fresh butter.
  3. Put the mixture into a saucepan with a tablespoonful of water, and let it simmer, gently stirring it all the time.
  4. When it is on the point of boiling, take it from the fire and press it through a sieve into a basin, which must stand in cold water until the butter is cold.
  5. Time, a few minutes to simmer.
  6. Probable cost, crabs from lOd.to 3s.
  7. Gd., depending upon the size.
  8. Sufficient, the flesh from two large claws, for half a pound of butter.
  9. Suitable for a breakfast relish.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Mortar and pestle
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve