*** WHITE SAUCE ***
2 tablespoon Butter
2 tablespoon Flour
1 cup Milk, Warmed
*** ABALONE ***
3 tablespoon Butter, Melted
2 Shallots, Minced
1 cup Crabmeat, Cooked
1 dash Cayenne
½ teaspoon Mustard, Dry
½ teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
½ Lemon, Juiced
4 large Abalone, Steaks
2 Eggs, Beaten
Flour
Melt 2 tb butter in skillet and stir in flour. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, over medium heat about 1 minute but do not allow flour to brown. Add milk and cook and stir 1 or 2 minutes until mixture comes to boil and thickens for abalone, cook shallots in 1/3 of the melted butter until tender . Add crabmeat and heat thoroughly. Add enough white sauce to bind, about 1/2 cup.
Season to taste with salt and white pepper and add cayenne, mustard, worcestershire and lemon juice. Carefully pound abalone steaks between 2 sheets of waxed paper until very thin . Dip abalone in eggs seasoned to taste with salt and white pepper. Coat with flour and set aside.
Melt rest of the butter in heavy skillet. Add abalone and brown quickly on one side. Turn and brown other side. Do not overcook as abalone will toughen. Place abalone steaks on platter and spoon crabmeat stuffing on each. Roll and arrange on serving platter, seam down.