Oyster Crab with Cream Cheese a la Octavia / Crabe d’huitre au Fromage £ l’Octavia

Step 1. carefully so it does not curdle; season with cayenne pepper and a

Step 2. little salt, then add one spoon of whipped cream; put it in a paper

Step 3. bag that holds a leaf tube. Cut the bread out in round slices with

Step 4. a round patty cutter; spread it with the cheese and anchovy paste mixed. Mark the sandwiches out in six parts leaving a space in

Step 5. the center; decorate on each mark by waving the cheese to the sides

Step 6. making a border, place in between the cheese the oyster crabs

Step 7. that have been fried and are cold. Arrange them in the other spaces

Step 8. beginning with one to the center, then two, three, four, and then

Step 9. five according to the size of the sandwich, one resting a trifle on

Step 10. the other. In the center place a round slice of truffle, that has

Step 11. been glazed by dipping it into the aspic; sprinkle the oyster crabs

Step 12. on the sandwich with a little lemon juice. Arrange them in the

Step 13. form of a ring on a platter with parsley in the center and all around garnish with small clifts of lemon that has been dipped in chopped truffles. Serve before the soup.