Eastern shore crab cakes
12 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | pounds | Crab meat |
| Salt; to taste | ||
| Pepper; to taste | ||
| 1 | Egg | |
| ¼ | pounds | Butter |
| 1 | tablespoon | Lemon juice |
| 1 | Egg; hard boiled | |
| 1 | tablespoon | Worcestershire sauce |
| Bread crumbs | ||
| -- Mrs. William W. Paca | ||
| Weston, Anne Arundel Co., MD | ||
| from The Hammond-Harwood House | ||
Directions
Put crab meat in a bowl and season to taste with salt and pepper. Add slightly beaten egg, melted butter, lemon juice, cut-up hard-boiled egg, and Worcester sauce. Then add just enough soft bread crumbs to make it into cakes (2 or 3 slices of bread). Pan-fry the cakes a golden brown.
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