This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
Dress carefully, season with salt, baste with oil or melted butter broil over a slow fire; dress on a hot dish and cover with ravigotte butter.
Dip the dried crabs into milk, then roll in flour and fry to a golden color in deep fat; dress on a folded napkin.
Roll the crabs in flour and sauté in hot clarified butter; dress on a hot dish; add a little lemon juice to the butter in which the crabs were cooked, strain this over the crabs and sprinkle the top with fine-chopped parsley.
 
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