Crabmeat au Gratin

By CheeseDiva

Ingredients

• 3 TBSP Butter
• 3 TBSP Flour
• 1/8 tsp White pepper
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 1 1/2 c Half-and-half
• 1 1/2 Jiggers dry sherry
• 1 dash Cayenne pepper
• 1/2 lb Grated American cheese
• 1/2 lb lump blue crab meat (you can use less expensive crab meat if your budget is tight)
• Buttered bread crumbs
• 2 tb Grated American cheese for topping
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Details

Servings 1
Adapted from thenewburgundians.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 450F

Melt butter in a saucepan; remove from heat and add flour, salt and pepper.  Blend in hot half and half, stirring all the time.

Return to heat and stir until it forms a nice cream sauce.

Add dry sherry and cayenne pepper.

Stir in cheese. Stir until the cheese has melted into the sauce.

Add the crab meat; combine gently so as not to break up the lumps of crab meat.

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However, I’ll concede that the cheese genre we choose to call “American” may include some tasty, well made cheeses. There’s nothing wrong with the genre of semi-firm, mild cow’s milk cheeses, and while I haven’t gone out of my way to seek great examples, I have to assume they exist. You can make a great cheese in any style, I just wish we didn’t call that particular style “American”.

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), to go back to the Bon Ton Cafe and to go to one of John Besh’s restaurants. A friend went to one of his places and swooned for days!

I was just at Bon Ton, and I had this dish.. Holy Cow! It is delicious. I love to cook, so I immediately wrote down ingredients.. they included (this is directly from the server).. cream, sherry, white wine, mushrooms, cheese.. of course. You may want to try to add these as I’m certain they are in the original recipe. I’m going to go try out yours as well! Cheers!

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