Savory Maryland Crabmeat Supreme

Ingredients:

1 cup Chopped onion

1 cup Chopped green capsicum

1 cup Chopped celery

500g Butter

2 pounds fresh lump crabmeat

1/2 cup Chopped parsley

4 teaspoons Salt

1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce

2 Lemons, juice of

60g canned pimento, drained and Chopped

1 500g can small mushrooms drained

1 cup Sherry

1 Cup plain flour

1 teaspoon Pepper

4 cup Milk

1 cup savory biscuit crumbs

Directions:

Cook onion, pepper and celery in half of the butter; do not brown. Remove from the heat and combine with crab, parsley, 2 teaspoons salt, Tabasco, lemon juice, pimentos, mushrooms, and sherry. Combine flour, remaining salt, and pepper in double boiler. Slowly stir in milk and cook until mixture is smooth, stirring. Remove from heat and stir in butter until melted. Combine with crab mixture. Pour into casserole and sprinkle with crumbs. Bake in a preheated 325F. oven for 20 minutes.