Crab, Queen Style

Queen style crab is an elegant crab salad served in crab shells.

Pick about a dozen hard-shell boiled crabs into as large pieces as possible; mix them in a salad bowl, with one-half breakfast cupful of sliced celery or shredded lettuce, one-half pinch of pepper, one pinch of salt, one tablespoonful of olive oil, and one and one-half tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Refill six well cleaned shells with the salad, and on each one lay one tablespoonful of mayonnaise sauce; and sprinkle over with chopped hard boiled egg, the yolk separated from the white, some crab or lobster coral, and one teaspoonful of chopped parsley, every article to be used separately in order that each color may be distinct. Serve on a dish with a folded napkin, or ornamental dish-paper.