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Ma’s Crab Imperial

Course Seafood
Cuisine American, Southern Maryland - Down Home

Ingredients
  

  • 1 lb. backfin or lump crabmeat
  • 1 cup milk
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • 2 tablespoons prepared mustard
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • Breadcrumbs

Instructions
 

  • Milk butter, add flour, mix, add milk. Stir over medium heat until sauce bubbles. Remove from heat. Add mustard, salt and pepper.
  • Tossed crab lightly with sauce, trying not to break up the lumps. Put in four crab shells or casserole dish. Sprinkle with buttered breadcrumbs. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until brown.
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