Recipe - Crab Meat And Mushrooms In Wine Sauce

1 pound Fresh crab meat
One fourth pound Fresh mushrooms, cut or sliced up , or
1 large can of mushrooms
(stems and pieces)
2 tablespoon Butter (to saute fresh
Mushrooms)
2 tablespoon Butter
2 tablespoon Flour
One half cup Milk
One half cup White wine
One half teaspoon Dry mustard
One fourth teaspoon Dry tarragon
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Hot sauce to taste
Three fourths cup Bread crumbs

Pull crab meat apart and remove stiff membrances. Saute mushrooms in
butter. (If mushrooms not fresh, add later.) Make a cream sauce blending
melted butter, flour and milk, wine, mustard, tarragon, salt, pepper and
hot sauce. Cook 2 or 3 minutes, then add crab meat and mushrooms. Place in
casserole; sprinkle top with bread crumbs and dot with butter. Bake at 350
degrees F for 30 minutes uncovered. Cover before serving. This can also be
made with shrimp, or crab meat and shrimp.

From Mrs. J. Burton LeBlanc, "River Road Recipes" published by The Junior
League of Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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