crab cake (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Victor Steinbok]

Excellent! Now we'll have to track down fish cakes and shrimp cakes ;-)

     VS-)

On 2/8/2012 4:25 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
> OED has 1929 for crab cake
> Thomas J. Murrey, _Cooking with a Chafing Dish_ NY: Frederick A. Stokes,
> 1891. p. 16 [Google Books]
> "Crab Cakes. -- The meat from the hard shell crabs, after boiling, may
> be made into little cakes, held together with the yolk of an egg,
> seasoned with salt and pepper, then cooked on both sides in the chafing
> dish with a small amount of butter or oil."
>
> _The Irish World and American Industrial Liberator_ [NY, NY] 9/24/1898 p
> 6 col 3 [Gale 19th Cent newspapers]
> "CRAB CAKES.  Crabs are plenty now, and the following receipt will be
> timely."
>
> _Trenton [NJ] Times_ col 4/28/1901 p 8 col 4 [Newspaperarchive]
> "Suitable for Crab salad, baked Crabs, and Crab cakes"
>
> _Billboard_ 4/20/1921 p 66 col 2 [Fulton]
> "Wm. J. Gauthier has the hamburger and coffee stands: Otto Leiss, crab
> cake stand."
>
> _Brooklyn Daily Eagle_ 4/4/1923 p A-8 col 1 [Fulton]
> "A<  short time ago I had the pleasure of eating some very delicious crab
> cakes down in Dixie. "

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