Once Fu Gong ，who was in Song Dynasty, wrote in his book “Scripture of Crab Banquet” refer to “ the crabs are all appears in all prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces, especially in Jiangsu ”. After the several years, onthe basis of “ Scripture of Crab Banquet” ,Gao Sisun compiled a “Crab's Recipe”. In these two works, they introduced a lot of kinds of exquisite crab's food at that time emphatically.

First,steamed crab. The culinary art method which Lin Hong especially recommends is the very simple boiling crabs, that is to say that to put the crab in water to boil, mix with the condiment , fill a cup of wine and hold crabs together with friends, it is content with such situation. This kind of way to eat, is similar to today's steamed crab, but the most genuine method to eat crab .

Second, a kind of crab custard making Hao subsidary , it is said that very delicious. Gao Sisun wrote a poem of “Praise Crab Custard”, it is said Song Gaozong also appreciated very much to crab custard.

Third, after dismantling the crab into bulks, add wine ,salt , plum , ginger , orange to mix, and needs some time to salt down. Then you can eat with clean hands.

Fourth, mince crab into pieces, cook with sesame oil , and add fennel , fructose ,aniseed , Chinese prickly ash , water ginger , ground pepper powder ,etc. as condiment, in addition the spring onions , salt , vinegar amount to ten flavors , enter and mix thoroughly in crabs , eat immediately. 　      

 Fifth, “ wine crab”. Soak the crab for one night with the Japanese Rice Wine and salt in December, remove the dirty things that the crab discharged, in addition, add the Chinese prickly ash and salt, add some wine into a clean cookery, pour into the juice that soaked the crab originally, boiled together, pour it into in crabs after cooling. Juice must soak the crab completely.

Sixth, “wine preserved crab”. Use pot ale vinegar , wine , sauce every one bowl , determine according to the amount of the crab to add salted. The flavor is unique . Later on tribute wine preserved crab of Xinghua develop the making of the wine preserved crab on the traditional basis.

 Seventh, “candy crab”. The candy crab has already been local tribute in the Tang Dynasty, it had still enjoyed great popularity in Song Dynasty.

Eighth, “the crab with oranges ”. Select yellow maturity already crabs for use and bring two big oranges of blade , cut down the top, cut out meat flesh to go the inside , leave some orange juice , filled up with the crab grease and meat, then covered with top of the orange with leaves, put into a pot for steaming , add wine , vinegar ,water steam and cook. Dip in vinegar , salt when taking , fragrant flavor have , make people produce the refined taste of itself.

Nine is the crab made with the sauce. Only a cook with some areas in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces can make.