Recipe By : Betty Crocker's Merry Makings
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Fish & Seafood Salads
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1/2 c Water
1/4 c Butter
1/2 c Flour
1/8 ts Salt
1/2 ts Caraway seed -- up to 1 ts
2 Eggs
Crab Meat Salad:
1 c Crab Meat -- chopped
1 c Celery -- diced
1 c Lettuce hearts -- cut in small
- pieces
1 ts Lemon juice
1 ts Onion -- finely minced
Salt -- to taste
Paprika -- to taste
Mayonnaise
Tomato wedges
Lemon wedges
Egg -- hard-boiled, sliced
Ripe olives
Heat oven to 400°F. Heat water and butter to boil in saucepan. Stir
in flour, salt, and caraway seeds at once. Stir vigorously over low
heat until mixture leaves sides of pan and forms a ball, about
1 minute. Remove from heat. Cool. slightly about 10 minutes. Add
eggs, one at a time, beating until smooth and velvety after each
addition. Spread batter evenly in bottom of greased glass 9" pie pan.
(Have batter touching sides of pan, but do not spread up sides.) Bake
45 to 50 minutes. Cool slowly away from drafts. (The puff will form a
bowl--high on sides and flat in center. Fill with crab meat salad.
Crab Meat Salad:
Mix lightly crab meat, celery, lettuce hearts, lemon juice, onion,
salt, and paprika. Chill. Just before serving, toss with mayonnaise
to moisten. Heap in salad bowl. Garnish with tomatos, lemons, eggs,
and olives.
