6 boiled crabs, common size.

1 cup finely minced white cabbage.

1/2 cup salad dressing.

Pick the meat out of the crabs, cut all that can be cut into pieces of even size and rub the rest smooth in salad dressing, adding a little mustard. Mix cabbage and dressing thoroughly, and the crab meat mix in lightly, without breaking the pieces. Fill 8 crab shells with the salad and place them on a dish previously prepared with a bed of cress or other green.

Cost. - 6 crabs, 30; dressing, 4; 34 cents for 8 orders.