1 can of crab. 1/2 cup butter sauce.

4 hard-boiled yolks of eggs.

Salt and cayenne.

Crab shells or paper cases..

Have the butter sauce made the same as if for boiled meat, mash the yolks and sauce together and stir into the crab. Season to taste. Oil the crab shells inside with salad oil, fill up, smooth over the top, bake about 6 minutes and serve hot

Cost - can of devilled crab 20, yolks 7, butter sauce 3; 30 cents for 6 or 8.

Note. - The canned crab is called devilled crab as it is, simply meaning that i-is minced and cooked. It is usually dryer than the meat taken out of the shells, being composed of selected meat - hence the difference between the two foregoing receipts, bread being needed in one case to dry it up. Crab shells may be Baved over and used many times for the same purpose. When a number are to be served at once, dish them on a folded napkin and ornament the dish. Paper cases may be purchased to answer the same purpose as shells.