This was Ciro’s number-one hors d’oeuvre, served in an iced glass pedestal dish.
Serves 6
24 oz. crabmeat, free of bones
2 stalks celery, diced
½ medium onion, diced
4 stalks green onion, chopped
2 tbsp. pickle relish
¼ cup mayonnaise
1 tsp. prepared mustard
3 drops hot pepper sauce
1. In a large bowl, combine crabmeat, celery, onion, green onion, relish, mayonnaise, mustard, and hot pepper sauce.
2. Place into a dish or arrange on a bed of lettuce for a first course.
The Ciro’s dining area, next to the dance floor.
Betty Grable, Lucille Ball, Darryl F. Zanuck, Marilyn Monroe, Jimmy McHugh, Walter Winchell, and Louella Parsons at a Ciro’s party for the film Let’s Make Love, 1960.
Frances Robinson and Anitole Litvak dancing at Ciro’s.
Phyllis Winger and Rock Hudson.