6 boiled crabs, common size.

1 cup finely minced white cabbage lettuce, or endive.

\ cup salad cream.

Pick the meat out of the crabs, cut all that can be cut into nieces of even size and rub the rest smooth in salad salad dressing, adding a little mustard. Mix cabbage and dressing thoroughly, and the crab meat mix in lightly without breaking the pieces. Fill the crab shells with the salad and place them on a dish previously prepared with a bed of cress or other green.

Cost of material - 6 crabs 25, salad cream 5, green 2; 32 cents for 6 shells of salad or 5 or 6c each.

Note. - Crab salads may be made in all the same ways as shrimp and lobster salads; particularly good with mayonaise dressing.