Klein Krebs

Combine flour, pepper and salt in medium size bowl. Dredge shrimp in flour mixture. Leave shrimp in flour until flour coating shrimp becomes moist (about 20 minutes). Place skillet over medium heat, add butter until butter is melted. Remove excess flour from shrimp and put in hot skillet. Cook until all shrimp meat has turned from gray to pink and the flour coating is a light golden brown. Toss with freshly grated ginger, then serve.

Notes:

• • The original recipe calls for crabs that look like the zodiac sign for Cancer. Crawfish would be a fresh water "crab" which would have this appearance. Since Shrimp are easily available in most grocery stores, Shrimp was substituted for the crawfish.

  • The original recipe does not specify if fresh or dried ginger is used. Though it is more likely dried ginger was used, I really like the brightness the fresh ginger imparts to this recipe. I use a microplane to grate the fresh ginger over the shrimp.

References:

Rumpolt, Marx. "Ein new Kochbuch", Transliteration by Thomas Gloning, http://www.uni-giessen.de/gloning/kobu.htm

Rumpolt Marx Ein New Kochbuch [Online] // Ein New Kochbuch / ed. Grasse M.. - 2002. - February 5, 2009. - http://clem.mscd.edu/~grasse/GK_Rumpolt1.htm. - This is a translation of the book first published in 1581 by Marx Rumpolt. It has nearly 1000 recipes.

"Manuscriptorium." Manuscriptorium. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Sept. 2012. <http://www.manuscriptorium.com/index.php>.The Manuscriptorium's mission is to Build a Virtual Research Environment for the Sphere of Historical Resources. A facsimile of Ein New Kochbuch is available in the Digital Library (Document # 95.107)

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