Sandra'S Crab Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 doz. or more crabs, boiled in highly seasoned water
1 stick butter or margarine
1 onion, finely chopped
6 mushrooms, thinly sliced
fresh rosemary and basil, chopped (1/2 tsp. each dried will do if fresh not available)
2 heaping Tbsp. flour
approximately 3 c. milk (I'm guessing on this)
1 tsp. mace (very important for flavor)
1/2 c. dry cooking sherry
Tabasco to taste
freshly ground pepper

Preparation

Boil crabs for 10 minutes.
Turn heat off; let crabs soak in seasoned water for 20 to 30 minutes.
Cool crabs and pick, saving \"roe\" if fortunate to have \"she crabs.\"
(The more crabs, the better.)