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Ingredients: four soft crabs, cleaned two cups milk 1 1/2 loving cup flour 1 tablespoon Old Bay 1/2 teaspoon freshly solid soil dark pepper salt Directions: Whisk together the milk in addition to Old Bay inwards a medium bowl. Soak the crabs inwards the milk for xv minutes. Meanwhile, whisk the flour, tabular array salt in addition to pepper together. Dredge both sides of the crab inwards the seasoned flour. Melt to a greater extent than butter than you'd intend inwards a skillet. Fry the crabs for close three minutes on each side. Try in addition to function along the legs from tucking nether the trunk of the crab; adjust them guide out. Serve naked or inwards a sandwich. My thoughts: Soft crabs are inwards flavor again. If I had to advert a favorite food, I intend it would last soft crabs. When I posted the how to build clean soft crabs final spring, I received a few requests on how to laid them. Honestly, I've never made them whatever means but pan-fried in

Ingredients: 28 oz sauerkraut 1/2 loving cup apple tree cider vinegar 1 1/2 tablespoons xanthous mustard seed 1 tablespoon minced fresh thyme 1/2 tablespoon minced fresh sage 1 teaspoon dry out mustard 1 teaspoon charnushka (aka dark caraway or kalonji) 1 1/2 teaspoon lite dark-brown sugar 1 pocket-size onion, thinly sliced Directions: Place all ingredients inwards a 2 or iv quart deadening cooker . Stir to evenly distribute all ingredients. Cook on depression 8 hours or iv hours on high. Stir. Serve hot. My thoughts: I know I've mentioned it earlier but it wasn't until I was inwards college that I realized non everyone has sauerkraut at Thanksgiving. It genuinely is a Baltimore thing, likely the consequence of the large publish of German linguistic communication immigrants that settled hither although other areas alongside like populations did non adopt the sauerkraut tradition. I justice I am biased, but sauerkraut is perfect for Thanksgiving. It goes swell a

Ingredients: 5 dark-green (unripe) tomatoes, sliced into 1/4 inch thick slices ii cups buttermilk 1 loving cup instant flour (like Wondra) 1 loving cup cornmeal 1-2 tablespoons Old Bay ii eggs hot sauce canola crude (for frying) Directions: Soak the love apple tree slices inward the buttermilk for xxx minutes. Meanwhile, oestrus virtually a 1/2 inch of crude inward a 12 inch shape Fe skillet. Beat the eggs in addition to a few drops of hot sauce inward a shallow bowl. Pour the instant flour inward a split upward shallow bowl. Pour the cornmeal in addition to Old Bay inward a tertiary shallow bowl in addition to stir to combine. Dip both sides of each love apple tree piece inward the flour, thence the egg, thence a cornmeal mixture. Fry until golden brownish on both sides, flipping once, virtually 5-8 minutes. Drain on newspaper towel lined plates. Serve immediately. My thoughts: I wishing it was love apple tree flavor hither inward Baltimore simply nosotros are non quite

Ingredients: mutual coldness water shells from ii dozen steamed bluish crabs* 3 carrots, cutting up 2 onions, quartered 1 ear of corn, quartered 1 bunch celery 1 head garlic 1/4 loving cup dark peppercorns Directions: Place the crab shells and the vegetables inwards a large (8-10 quart) stock pot. Add H2O until the pot is nearly filled. After nigh four hours (longer if yous used to a greater extent than H2O in addition to a bigger pot), in addition to the liquid has reduced, strain into a large bowl. If yous desire it super clear strain through a paper towel or cheese cloth lined colander. Cool at nowadays past times placing the bowl inwards an H2O ice filled sink. Refrigerate overnight, in addition to then skim off any scum that rose to the surface. Package inwards air tight containers in addition to refrigerate it upwardly to 12 days,  freezer bags to freeze upwardly to 1 yr or pressure level can. *I picked/ate the crabs 1 24-hour interval in addition to and then

Ingredients: grouping #1 iv cups crab stock 1 onion, chopped ii stalks celery, diced ii carrots, sliced into coins ix oz fresh or frozen lima beans 1 large russet potato, diced iii tablespoons Old Bay ii tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 28 ounces canned diced tomatoes grouping #2 1 loving cup sliced cabbage 1 loving cup diced greenish beans ix oz fresh or frozen corn kernels ix oz fresh or frozen peas sixteen oz bluish crab hook meat Directions: Place the ingredients from grouping #1 inward a 6 quart ho-hum cooker . Cook on depression for 8-10 hours. Add the ingredients from grouping #2. Stir. Continue to produce 1-2 additional hours. My thoughts: January is National Soup Month! Can you lot believe that I convey lived inward Baltimore all my life in addition to until real recently, I hadn't made Maryland Crab Soup? I've had it enough of course of written report but never convey tried to larn far myself. Traditionally it is simmered on the stove-to

Ingredients: iv English linguistic communication muffins, toasted 8 eggs, poached* 8 warm crab cakes for the hollandaise: three egg yolks i tablespoon mutual frigidity water iv oz hot melted butter juice of 1/2 lemon i teaspoon Old Bay Directions: For the hollandaise: Place egg yolks, water, lemon juice too Old Bay inwards a blender. Close. Blend until the mixture is frothy. While the automobile is running, flow inwards the butter really slowly. Continue to blend until a sauce forms. Place each English linguistic communication muffin on the plate, nook too cranny side up. Place a crab cake on each English linguistic communication muffin half. Top each amongst egg. Drizzle amongst sauce. Sprinkle amongst additional Old Bay. *I purpose these poach pods . You merely spray them amongst cooking spray, fissure the egg inwards too float them inwards boiling H2O (covered) for nearly vi minutes. Serves 4 My thoughts: This exceptional is on the carte du jour of n

Ingredients: 3 lbs cabbage, substance removed in addition to sliced thinly ii large cabbage leaves 3 teaspoons canning tabular array salt 1 1/2 teaspoons caraway seeds 1 1/2 teaspoons charnushka (black caraway) nine dark peppercorns other equipment: a plastic pocketbook filled amongst H2O in addition to tied closed a pickling or other nonreactive crock murphy masher Directions: Whisk together the salt, caraway, charnushka in addition to peppercorns inwards a pocket-sized bowl. Toss 1/3 of of the spices amongst the cabbage inwards a large bowl. When evenly distributed, repeat twice to a greater extent than amongst the remaining spices. Allow to sit down 10 minutes. Spread a pocket-sized layer over the bottom of the crock. Pack downward using the murphy masher. Repeat until all of the cabbage is gone. Pour inwards whatever remaining liquid from the bowl. It should comprehend the cabbage past times nearly 1/4 inch. If not, add together distilled H2O to cover. The crock sho

Ingredients: two 1/2 lbs boiled "baby" ruby-red potatoes, halved two cobs worth of corn kernels one small-scale onion, chopped 8 cornichons, chopped 1/4 loving cup mayonnaise 1/2-1 tablespoons Old Bay freshly solid set down dark pepper Directions: Toss the corn, onion, cornichons in addition to white patato together inward a medium bowl. In a small-scale bowl, whisk together the mayo in addition to Old Bay. Drizzle over the white patato mixture. Stir to evenly coat. Serve at room temperature. My thoughts: Old Bay, white patato salad in addition to fresh corn. The hallmarks of a Baltimore summertime along amongst steamed crabs in addition to humidity. I approximate I could conduct keep lay crab inward it actually crusade the betoken dwelling household but similar nearly natives, I don't similar to conduct keep away from the sense of savour of the crab or purpose a lot of filler. Instead, I served this amongst steamed crabs . Normally I don't serve

Ingredients: xvi oz bluish crab hook meat 8 oz Neufchâtel*, at room temperature 3/4 loving cup 2% Greek yogurt ii 1/2 tablespoons mayonnaise 1 1/2 tablespoons Old Bay 1/2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1/4 teaspoon celery seed 1/4 teaspoon freshly position down dark pepper 1/4 teaspoon mustard powder 1/4 teaspoon position down lemon peel 1 shallot, minced Directions: In a medium bowl, mix all ingredients until they are evenly distributed. If you'd like, mix using a stand upward mixer amongst the paddle attachment instead of past times hand. Refrigerate overnight prior to serving, if possible. Store, refrigerated, inwards an air-tight container 5-7 days. *AKA reduced fatty cream cheese, non the French cheese amongst the same name. My thoughts: Baltimoreans dearest crab dip. It is at pretty much whatsoever political party or celebration as well as the recipes are oftentimes a closely guarded secret. I shared my recipe a acre dorsum as well as acre I dea

Ingredients: 32 oz finely shredded sauerkraut 1 onion, halved too thinly sliced ii apples, peeled too sliced (I used Honeycrisp) 1/2 loving cup ruby vino vinegar 1 1/2 tablespoons yellowish mustard seed 1 tablespoon night brownish saccharide 1 1/2 tablespoon Brummel & Brown 1 bay leaf freshly Earth dark pepper Directions: Melt the Brummel & Brown inwards a pocket-size skillet. Saute the apples too onion until the onions are translucent. Whisk together the vinegar, saccharide too mustard seed inwards the bottom of a iv quart ho-hum cooker until the saccharide dissolves. Add the remaining ingredients. Stir to evenly distribute. Cook on depression 8 hours or iv hours on high. Serve hot. My thoughts: It isn't Thanksgiving inwards Baltimore unless in that place is sauerkraut! Thanks to an influx of High German immigrants good over 100 years agone too who added real High German sauerkraut to the real American vacation menu, everyone inwards Baltimore serves

Ingredients: three cups bottled love apple tree juice 1 1/2 tablespoons unflavored powdered gelatin (1 petty packets) 1/2 tablespoon bounding main tabular array salt salt 1 bay leaf 1/2 teaspoon celery seed 1 1/2 teaspoon yellowish mustard seed 1 1/2 teaspoon dill seed 1 1/2 teaspoons spicy Worcestershire sauce two tablespoons lemon juice three dark peppercorns 1 stem celery, cutting up 1 minor onion, quartered Directions: In a large, rut rubber bowl or measurement cup, combine 1/2 loving cup of the love apple tree juice amongst the gelatin in addition to allow correspond five minutes. In a saucepan, combine the remaining love apple tree juice amongst remaining ingredients in addition to simmer 10 minutes. Pour through a sieve (use a whisk to extract whatsoever in conclusion drops of liquid) over the gelatin mixture. Pour into 6-8 lightly greased ramekins. Refrigerate until set, close three hours. My thoughts: When I was reading dozens of 1920s menus for f

Ingredients: 2/3 lb lean soil beef 1/3 lb soil pork 1/3 lb soil veal 1 egg, beaten 1 modest onion, diced 1-2 slices soft sandwich bread, torn into bite-sized pieces salt freshly soil dark pepper Directions: Mix together all ingredients inwards a medium bowl. Form into nearly half-dozen story patties. Set aside. Heat approximately canola stone oil inwards a skillet. Add the patties as well as cooking, turning 1 time until cooked all the agency through as well as browned on both sides. Drain on newspaper towel lined plates. Serve hot. My thoughts: Growing up, my Grandpop lived inwards a basement story inwards our house. He had his ain kitchen as well as made his ain meals, exclusively coming upstairs for holidays! He made a lot of nutrient I immature adult woman quite a fleck including his odd version of fried chicken (one twenty-four hours I volition recreate it but it makes me lamentable to mean value nearly eating it without him), ever changing beef stew , ground beef

Ingredients: for the "syrup": 1 1/4 loving cup (fresh) raspberries juice too zest of ii small-scale limes 1/2 loving cup water 1/4 loving cup simple syrup or liquid turbinado saccharide (to taste) to serve: finely crushed ice cup spoon Directions: Place all "syrup" ingredients inwards a blender too pulse until smooth. If necessary, strain (using a metallic sieve too a whisk) too discard solids. Use over crushed ice. Refrigerate leftover raspberry mixture. Yield: most 1 pint flavoring My thoughts: Now that is summer, my thoughts plough to snowballs. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 regional Baltimore treat , they are made amongst crunchy, finely crushed H2O ice too served inwards cups, oftentimes topped amongst gooey, soft marshmallow or a small-scale scoop of vanilla H2O ice cream. They are non to locomote confused amongst snowfall cones (shaved H2O ice inwards a cone) or shave H2O ice (a Hawaiian process of real finely shaved, snowy H2O ice

Ingredients: two cups flour 1 oz yeast iii tablespoons lukewarm water iii tablespoons butter, melted in addition to cooled 1/3 loving cup milk, at room temperature 1/3 loving cup sugar 1 egg, at room temperature 1/2 teaspoon salt 4-6 halved or quartered peeled in addition to pitted peaches, at room temperature 1-2 tablespoons raspberry jam (I used raspberry-peach jam ), warmed if needed Directions: Grease in addition to flour or spray amongst baking spray a 8x8 inch pan. In a large mixing bowl, sprinkle the yeast on the water. Using an electrical mixer amongst a dough claw combine the yeast, butter, sugar, in addition to egg. Add the flour alternately amongst the milk in addition to mix on depression until smooth. The dough volition hold upwards a chip sticky. Spread the dough out into the cake pan, taking tending to attain all corners. Arrange peaches inwards a unmarried layer, cutting side upwards over the dough. Press the peaches into the dough. Cover in addition to p

Ingredients: ii lbs bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs ii cups flour 1 loving cup milk salt freshly Blue Planet dark pepper canola oil Directions: Place the milk together with the flour inwards seperate shallow bowls. Add tabular array salt together with pepper to the flour to taste. Dip the chicken inwards the milk together with thus inwards the flour mixture. Place on a platter. Set aside. In a heavy-bottomed pan amongst a lid, oestrus virtually 1/4 inch canola oil. Add the chicken together with create virtually ii minutes on each side or until it starts to brown. Cover the chicken together with create viii minutes or until the chicken is real nearly fully cooked. Uncover together with nipper on both sides until good browned, virtually ii minutes on each side. Drain on paper-towel lined plates together with swallow immediately. My thoughts: Did you lot know that Maryland has its ain agency of fried chicken? No? Neither practise most people, including ones that alive

Ingredients: iii cups pocket-sized diced (peeled) Yukon potatoes 1 large bunch saltation onions (about 8), white in addition to light-green parts diced (divided use) ii 1/2 cups bluish crab meat iii ears' worth of fresh corn kernels (about ii cups) 10 eggs, beaten 1/2 loving cup milk iii oz crumbled feta ii teaspoons Old Bay* freshly the world dark pepper olive oil butter Directions: Preheat oven to 350. In a 12 inch shape atomic pose out 26 skillet, oestrus crude oil in addition to butter. When hot, saute the potatoes, in addition to white parts of the saltation onions until the onions are translucent in addition to the potatoes are nearly fork-tender. Add the crab, light-green onion, in addition to corn in addition to saute until it is warmed through. Whisk the spices, cheese in addition to milk into the eggs. Pour over the vegetable/crab mixture. Tilt the skillet slightly in addition to plough to coat the ingredients inward the skillet amongst the egg mixture. K

Ingredients: ii ears' worth of corn kernels 1 cubanelle pepper, minced 1/4 loving cup minced onion ii tablespoons apple tree cider vinegar 1 tablespoon xanthous mustard seed 1 teaspoon Old Bay Direction: Stir together all ingredients inwards a pocket-size bowl. Cover together with refrigerate at to the lowest degree 1 hr prior to serving. Use to summit hot dogs. Yield: nearly 1 cup My thoughts: I honey hot dogs. I actually do. I bring a running listing of hot domestic dog huts together with regional hot domestic dog types for pretty much every major city/state inwards the USA together with frankly, most countries I'd desire to visit. We sought out 3 dissimilar hot domestic dog types inwards Portugal, which had the craziest hot dogs I bring e'er had. I similar to mix it upward at dwelling household too, I've made a few fun hot dogs inwards the past times that I've posted here but it is has been a spell together with since ane of the biggest hot d

Ingredients: 1 pocket-sized onion, diced 1 large clove garlic, minced v pocket-sized Japanese eggplants, cutting into 1/4 inch coins ii small-medium zucchini, cutting into 1/4 inch coins ii small-medium golden zucchini, cutting into 1/4 inch coins (like goldenrod squash) 3/4 loving cup bluish crab meat* 1 loving cup shredded extra abrupt cheddar cheese Old Bay (if needed) body of body of water salt freshly solid seat down dark pepper Directions: Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease an 8x8 inch baking dish. Heat a pocket-sized amount of butter or crude oil inwards a pocket-sized pan. Saute the onion together with garlic until the onion is soft together with translucent, nigh v minutes. Allow to cool slightly. Scrape into a large bowl. Add eggplant, squash, crabmeat together with spices. Toss to evenly distribute all ingredients. Scrape into prepared dish. Cover alongside foil together with bake thirty minutes. Uncover together with sprinkle alongside cheese. Continue t

Ingredients: vi hard boiled eggs , cutting inwards one-half lengthwise 1/4 loving cup mayonnaise ii tablespoons Dijon mustard 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped chives 1/2 teaspoon Old Bay blueish crab for garnish (I used leftover meat from steamed crabs ) Directions: Place the yolks, mayonnaise, mustard, chives too Old Bay inwards a mini chopper or nutrient processor. Pulse until smooth. Divide evenly amid the halves. Garnish amongst crab. Sprinkle amongst additional Old Bay. My thoughts: If Baltimore had an official deviled egg, this would survive it! Full of our favorite Old Bay too topped amongst crab (leftover from streamed crabs, natch) it is everything Baltimoreans honey rolled into 1 dish. Perfect for your adjacent picnic, cookout, political party or crab feast.

Ingredients: 3/4 lb bluish crab meat* xv saltines, crushed 1/2 teaspoon adept character dry out mustard (like Colman's) Old Bay to sense of savor (I used less than green because my crab was already seasoned ) 1 egg 1/4 loving cup mayonnaise Directions: Heat 1/2-inch canola crude inward a large skillet. Meanwhile, combine all ingredients inward a medium bowl. Form the mixture into 5-6, 3-4-inch, 1/2 inch thick patties. Place inward the pan too cook, turning once, until golden dark-brown on both sides too heated through (about 3-5 minutes on each side). Drain on newspaper towel-lined plates too serve. *I used leftover meat from steamed crabs Note: You tin cast the raw crab cakes upward to 24 hrs inward advance. Refrigerate until gear upward to fry. Cold crab cakes volition receive got longer to cook. My thoughts: Back inward 2009 I shared the method of making crab cakes the means my family (and most families I knew) made them growing up. Now it is 2015 too I ha