Peace, Love & Understanding: July 2013

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Crab Casserole

One of my oldest and most used cookbooks is "Georgia on My Menu" from the Cobb-Marietta Junior League.

It is full of wonderful recipes that have have become staples in my house. One of them is Crab Casserole. I have several versions of Crab Casseroles, including this Crab & Shrimp Delight but I haven't made this one in a long time so decided to pull out the old recipe book and satisfy my tummy at the same time.

Here is the page from the recipe book - giving credit to Sybil Kendall Little (whoever she may be)

Gather all your ingredients together, as you can see, I use onion powder instead of chopped onion, I just am not a fan of the texture of onions but I like the flavor.

The recipe says you need to melt the butter, when a recipe calls for this, I melt the butter in the dish I am going to bake it in. I do this while the oven is pre-heating. This way, you pre-heat you oven, melt your butter and grease your dish all at the same time - 3 steps in one (a little trick I learned from watching my mama cook).

In a large bowl, beat the eggs well, add the milk, crab, mayo, spices, mayo, mustard, lemon juice, & Worcestershire sauce, slowly drizzle the butter in (after it has cooled a bit, you don't want to "cook" your eggs with the warm butter). Then mix well. Pour everything back into the casserole dish.

Crush up a sleeve of Ritz crackers and sprinkle them over the top of the casserole.