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crab meat sinned against with mustard, cayenne, and butter, then baptized in breadcrumbs and fried.
means crab meat mixed with spicy seasonings, egg, and breadcrumbs, then stuffed into a shell or shaped into a croquette and fried or baked.
from deviled has meant fiery-hot in english cooking since the 1700s, when devil became shorthand for anything sharply spiced; crab got the treatment in charleston and tampa kitchens, where spanish and cuban immigrants shaped the mix into shells and shipped it to street vendors.
tampa staplesold from bakery windows in ybor city since the 1900s
shape trickoften served in an actual scrubbed crab shell
name origindeviled meant spicy long before deviled eggs existed
for instance
la segunda bakery — tampa institution baking deviled crabs since 1915
charleston she-crab kin — lowcountry cousin recipe using roe for richness
cuban sandwich shops — tampa cafes pair it as a classic combo plate