Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Erken's stewed crab (1914): a beurre manié of 35 g butter and 25 g flour thinned with 4 dl soured cream, with finely grated crab roe, crab meat, cayenne, salt, and sherry. Filled into cleaned crab shells, brushed with egg, drizzled with butter, sprinkled with rusk crumbs, and gratinated light brown in a hot oven. Served in the shells.
Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1914-utg. s. 153 (falt i det fri)
Stewed crab served in the shells, from the fish chapter of "Stor kokebok" (1914). The dish comes right after the basic recipe for boiled crab and is a typical "starter in the shell" from the bourgeois cooking of the time.
Stir the beurre manié
Stir butter and flour together in a pot.
Prepare the roe
Rub the roe fine on a board with just a little cold butter.
Thin the stew
Thin the butter-and-flour mixture with the soured cream (or sweet cream with 1 tsp vinegar). Add the roe at the same time as the flour and let the stew cook through well.
Season
Add salt and cayenne pepper, stir in the crab meat, and lastly the sherry. The stew should be fairly firm.
Fill the shells
Trim the edges of the cleaned shells, wash and dry them with a cloth, and fill them with the stew.
Gratinate
Brush with beaten egg, drizzle over melted butter, and sprinkle over crushed, sifted rusk crumbs. Bake in a hot oven (about 225 °C (435 °F)) until light golden brown on top.
Serve
Served in the shells, placed on a platter with a napkin.
The amount of sherry was illegible in the OCR and is set at 1/2 dl. "1 small deep plateful of crab meat" is estimated at about 300 g. Deciliters replace "del.," rusk crumbs are retained (can be replaced with dry breadcrumbs). Oven temperature is given (about 225 °C (435 °F)), and the method is divided into numbered steps.
Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

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Note til Modernisert
Mengden sherry sto uleselig i OCR og er satt til 1/2 dl. «1 liten dyp tallerkenfull krabbekjøtt» er anslått til ca. 300 g. Desiliter erstatter «del.», kavring er beholdt (kan byttes med tørt griljermel). Ovnstemperatur er angitt (ca. 225 °C), og fremgangsmåten er delt i nummererte trinn.
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