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Crab Meat Cocktail, Home Style

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. two tablespoonfuls of cocktail sauce
  2. Lettuce

Method

  1. Use fresh or canned crab meat, Japanese crab flakes (canned), as sent out from the New England coast, are particularly choice.
  2. Set the cocktail glass, with one or two tablespoonfuls of cocktail sauce, in the center of small plates, surround with five or six tiny heart-leaves of lettuce, each holding a bit of crab flake.
  3. Flakes and lettuce are dipped into the sauce with an oyster fork.
  4. Very small sandwiches can be served with cocktails.
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Plating

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Credit

From American cookery (1914), printed page 450, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/americancookery19unse_3

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.