For good crab cakes simply follow the recipe on the can of Old Bay seasoning. You can even use canned blue crab meat.
When I was a kid, crabs in Maryland were cheap. Hell, they were free if you knew someone who lived on the water. Crab cakes were not a gourmet food, they were something you did with leftover cab meat. Cheap lunch for the kids. We used to put them between saltine crackers with a little ketchup on them. I can still see the red ketchup oozing through the little holes in the cracker when you bit into it. Good times.
I like the Dungeness crabs here on the west coast, but I steam them Maryland style. Very expensive, though. And it's weird because the season for them is the opposite of Maryland. We have them for Christmas dinner.
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