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Ingredients

• ✓ blue crab
• crabmeat
• bacon
• seafood seasoning
• pea
• lima bean
• green bean
• white corn
• potato
• tomato
• cabbage
• water
• black pepper
• salt
• barley
• ham bone
• carrot

Instructions

1. 1 Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add carrots and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Drain well and set aside.
2. 2 Place ham bone, barley, salt, and pepper in large stockpot with 4 cups water. Simmer over medium heat for 30 to 45 minutes. Add cabbage and tomatoes and continue to simmer for 15 more minutes. Stir in potatoes and carrots; simmer until potatoes are tender and easily pierced with a fork, 20 to 30 minutes. Stir in 1 cup water, corn, green beans, lima beans, and peas; simmer for 20 minutes.
3. 3 While the soup is simmering, clean crabs by opening them and discarding the lungs and mouth. Remove the yellowish-brown tomalley (fat) and set aside. Break crabs in half and add to the soup along with seafood seasoning. Simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
4. 4 Meanwhile, cook bacon in a large, deep skillet over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain on a paper towel-lined plate; reserve grease in the skillet.
5. 5 Cook and stir reserved tomalley in bacon grease over low heat until mixture becomes gravy-like. Stir cooked tomalley into the soup with remaining 1 cup water. Continue simmering for 45 minutes, then add lump crabmeat and season with additional salt, pepper, and seafood seasoning if necessary. Simmer for 1 hour and 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Reduce the heat to low until ready to serve.

By FoodJunkie

Ingredients

• ✓ blue crab
• beer
• white vinegar
• seafood seasoning
• salt

Instructions

1. 1 Combine beer, vinegar, ½ cup seafood seasoning, and salt in a large stockpot over high heat; bring to a strong simmer.
2. 2 Carefully place each crab upside-down and stick a knife through the shell just behind the mouth right before cooking.
3. 3 Fit a screen over simmering beer mixture; layer crabs on the screen.
4. 4 Cover the pot; steam crabs until they turn bright orange and no blue-green color remains, 20 to 30 minutes. Sprinkle crabs with remaining ¼ cup seafood seasoning before serving.

By Steve A

Ingredients

• ✓ blue crab
• red potato
• kielbasa sausage
• shrimp and crab boil seasoning
• salt
• corn
• lemon
• green chile pepper
• shrimp

Instructions

1. 1 Fill a large, 40-quart pot half full with water; bring water to a full boil.
2. 2 Add potatoes, sausage, shellfish boil seasoning, and salt. Cook until potatoes are halfway cooked.
3. 3 Stir in corn, lemons, and chile pepper; continue boiling until vegetables are tender. Turn off heat.
4. 4 Mix in shrimp and crab. Cover the pot and let sit until shrimp are pink and crabmeat is opaque and flaky, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove vegetables and shellfish from the pot; drain well. Serve immediately.

By Gary W Brown

Ingredients

• ✓ blue crab
• dill seed
• mustard seed
• cumin seed
• chili powder
• paprika
• red pepper flake
• parsley
• thyme
• dill
• rosemary
• sage

Instructions

1. 1 Crush dill, mustard, and cumin seeds in a spice grinder, or with a mortar and pestle. Pour spices into a 5-gallon stockpot; add chili powder, paprika, red pepper flakes, parsley, thyme, dill, rosemary, and sage. Fill the pot 3/4 full with water; bring to a boil over high heat.
2. 2 Add crabs, cover, and boil until shells turn red and meat is opaque, about 20 minutes. Stir crabs occasionally as they boil to ensure even cooking.

By IMANKAY