New Orleans Hangover Remedy
- 4 parts ethyl alcohol
- 1 part ether
- A few drops of your favorite perfume
- Stir and sniff
- Stuffed Crab
- 1 tablespoon butter, softened, plus 7 tablespoons butter cut into 1/2 -inch cubes
- 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons soft crumbs from a baguette or similar bread, pulverized in a blender
- 1/4 cup fish stock or clam broth
- 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
- * pound fresh or frozen crab meat, drained
- 1/2 cup finely chopped scallions
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Spread the softened butter over the bottoms of 6 medium-size natural or ceramic crab or scallop shells.
- In a large bowl, mix 2 cups of the bread crumbs with the fish stock and set aside.
- In a heavy, 10-inch skillet, melt 4 tablespoons of the butter cubes over moderate heat.
- Add the onions and cook, stirring often, until they are translucent, about 5 minutes.
- Transfer the onion mixture to the bowl of moistened bread crumbs.
- Add the crab meat, scallions, parsley, cayenne and salt, and mix well.
- Mound the crabmeat mixture into the buttered shells.
- Sprinkle the remaining 2 tablespoons of bread crumbs and remaining 3 tablespoons of butter cubes over the tops and lay the shells on a large, shallow baking dish.
- Bake in the upper third of the oven for 15 minutes, then put under the broiler for 30 seconds or so to brown the tops.
- Serve hot in the shells.
ethyl alcohol, ether, sniff, butter, soft crumbs, fish stock, onion, crab meat, scallions, flatleaf parsley, cayenne, salt
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11197 (may not work)