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Boiled Crawfish  
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Boxes salt  
Pouches crab boil  
Lemons  
Ounce Cayenne pepper  
Pound Small white onions  
Garlic  
4 Small potatoes  
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Smoked sausage  
Corn  
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0 Pound Live crawfish  
Bring seasonings to boil for 10 minutes. Add potatoes, corn, and smoked  
sausage. Boil for another 10 minutes. Add crawfish. Bring back to boil. Cut  
fire off immediately. Let soak for 20 to 30 minutes. Drain. Peel and eat.  
While water is coming to a boil, cull and clean crawfish. Rinse well with  
garden hose and remove any dead ones. Always wear gloves when you fool with  
crawfish, but remember, they can still pinch you through gloves.  
Boiled Crawfish with Vegetables  
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Cup Salt  
/2 Cup Ground white pepper  
/2 Cup Ground black pepper  
/2 Cup Ground red pepper  
Pound Small white onions  
2 Large Ears of fresh corn, shucked  
Pound Small new potatoes  
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/2 Cup Ground white pepper  
/2 Cup Ground black pepper  
/2 Cup Ground red pepper  
Cup Salt  
Wash the crawfish and pick out any fish bones or other debris. Fill a BIG 40  
quart stock pot a quarter full of water. Add the salt and peppers and bring  
to a boil. Add the whole onions, the corn and the new potatoes [it will be  
easy to remove them later if you put them in a cloth sack]. Return to a  
boil, cover, lower heat to medium and let cook 8 minutes. Add the crawfish,  
cover again and raise the heat to high. After steam begins to escape from  
under the lid, cook seven minutes more. Remove from the heat and let sit for  
four minutes. Do NOT remove the lid until this point.  
Remove the onions, corn and potatoes to a bowl and drain the crawfish. Place  


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