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Delmarva Crab Cakes

Ingredients

1 lb Crab meat
2 tb Lemon juice
3 Eggs
2 tb Mayo
1 cup Breadcrumbs
1 tsp Salt
1/8 tsp Pepper
1 tsp Dry mustard
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
3/4 cup Milk
1/4 cup Flour
1 tsp Paprika

Sauce:
1 tbsp Butter
1 tbsp Flour
1/2 cup Milk

Directions

Pick out shells from crab meat and sprinkle crab with lemon juice. Make sauce. Heat and stir together butter and flour and stir in 1/2 cup milk until thick. Cool. Beat 2 eggs with the cooled sauce and blend in the mayo, 1/4 cup breadcrumbs, salt and pepper, mustard and Worcestershire. Gently combine crab meat with sauce mixture and chill until firm. Form into 9 to 12 patties. Beat 1 egg with milk. Bread cakes by dipping them in flour then egg milk mixture and then in remaining breadcrumbs and paprika. Fry in hot shortening until golden.