Shore crab bisque recipe – how to make a meal from your ... | 水產百科網

2018年8月14日—Shorecrabbisquerecipe·Putthecrabsinthefreezerforanhour,washandscrubthemandthendropintosaltedboilingwaterfor2minutes.

Crabbing is one of those simple seaside activities that have a lasting allure. My son and I have a crabbing kit – a plastic spool with thick nylon wire and a weighted bait bag – and we use it in anger every time we’re by the sea.

Quaysides, piers and pontoons over brackish water are ideal. You drop your bait – usually scraggy bits of butchers’ bacon – until it reaches the bottom then wait until you can feel the tell-tale ‘plucking’ vibrations as crabs use their claws to eat their fill through the netting of the bait bag.

Intent on their supper, they grab on so securely that they can be lifted clean out of the water and into the crabbing bucket. The skill is in not rushing the bait retrieval – otherwise the crabs get worried and drop off before they can be secured. We’ve caught 30 in a good session.

I’d never thought about eating these small shore crabs before until I fo...