Maryland Crab Cakes are one of our state’s finest delicacies. Many recipes vary (including Costas Inn’s famous recipe which we use for our crab cakes), but the result is usually the same: a delicious Maryland crab cake. Ever wonder how a crab cake is made?
Basics & Components
The modern crab cake is made of many components – the most important of those being crab meat. The other standard components usually include breadcrumbs, various seasonings, eggs and milk. Those ingredients are combined into small cakes that are then cooked. Most crab cakes (including Costas Inn’s Maryland crab cakes) use blue crab from the Chesapeake Bay, but some crab cakes are made with other types of crab such as the Dungeness crab.
Large crab cake is the preferred main ingredient because the higher quality the meat, the better the crab cake will be. The eggs used in crab cakes help to hold all of the ingredients together and this lets the cake itself be shaped in a certain way. The starch element is usually the breadcrumbs and besides using the eggs as a moistening agent, milk, cream, broth or mayonnaise. The final component, the seasoning, varies greatly from recipe to recipe and is generally thought to make or break a crab cake. Of course, at Costas Inn, our seasonings for our famous Maryland crab cakes will tantalize your taste buds!
The Making of the Crab Cake
After all the ingredients are combined, the crab cakes are formed into circles sometimes as small as a cookie and sometimes as large as a hamburger. They can be coated in bread crumbs and/or flour to add crunch to the crab cake and also to help safeguard it as it cooks in the pan. Pan-frying, grilling and baking are all legitimate ways to cook the crab cake. The hamburger-sized cakes (sometimes referred to as a “crabburger”) can sometimes be served on buns as a sandwich (or, again, a “crabburger”).
Now that you know, try Costas Inn Crab Cakes
All the crabs at Costas Inn are flown in daily to ensure only the freshest Louisiana and Texas Gulf delicacies are served at your table. Once they arrive at Baltimore-Washington International Airport they are immediately transported to our door where they will go through an immense sorting process. All crabs are hand sorted (over 11,000 crabs are sorted per week) by size and weight to its specific price specification. Once sorted Crabs are skillfully steamed to order and served by our friendly staff. Each crab embodies the excellence and quality Costas Inn strives for in creating what we hope will be an enjoyable dining experience.
Beware of imitators who brand their crabcakes as tried and true to Maryland recipes – we’ve sampled crabcakes from here to there and back again, and we can tell you no one makes a crabcake as moist and flavorful yet simple as natives of this area. Besides the great food, this is just a fun place to be. We’ve got a bar and host live music sessions every weekend, plus karaoke parties and other great events – it’s a hotspot in town.
So order some crab cakes today online or make a reservation at our restaurant in Baltimore and see for yourself why our crab cakes are a delectable treat that people all over Maryland and all over the entire country can’t get enough of. And since we recently discounted our shipping rates, there is no better time than now to get your hands on some Maryland crab cakes.
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Source: Facts About the Crab Cake, eHow Food
