On 2016-10-10 4:12 PM, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:04:20 -0300, wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:11:57 -0700, sf > wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:04:48 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>>>
>>>> sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 08:29:31 -0300, wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, 9 Oct 2016 21:49:41 -0500, Sqwertz >
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, 09 Oct 2016 09:19:51 -0300, wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I haven't looked through the newest one, the two I have are an
>>>>>>>> original (lucky find in a used book store along with a Larousse
>>>>>>>> Gastronomique) and a 1964 edition.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just downloaded Larousse and opened it up to a random page:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Larousse on Crab:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To prepare
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To kill a live crab, stab it several times with a sharp metal
>>>>>>> skewer into the underside directly behind the eyes or centrally
>>>>>>> under the tail flap. If in doubt about the humane method, consult
>>>>>>> a fishmonger.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cook the crab by boiling it in salted water for 20-30 minutes,
>>>>>>> then drainand rinse under cold water...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---------
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Boil for 20-30 minutes?!?!? Is that a 30-pound crab? For
>>>>>>> dungeness crab, I steam for maybe 12 minutes. Definitely not
>>>>>>> boil it for 30 minutes!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kinda makes me skeptical about the rest of what he writes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -sw
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't cook with it, but if it was the usual European Dungeness
>>>>>> crab, it could indeed be huge. I bought it as a souvenir and also
>>>>>> a very nice, well used copy of Ma Beeton.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is no such thing as a European Dungeness crab.
>>>>
>>>> Isn't there a city by that name though that they may use for the crabs?
>>>>
>>> You can Google that for yourself. Dungeness is a West Coast crab, but
>>> we also have an invasive species called the European green crab.
>>> http://wdfw.wa.gov/ais/carcinus_maenas/
>>
>> Which looks nothing like the Dungeness crabs in the Plymouth fish
>> market.
>
> Not my problem. Your problem is to explain a "European Dungeness
> crab" that doesn't exist.
>


Pshaw.... just leave it to me to demand that she provide proof of it and
she will pass it off and my misogyny.