Thanks so much for the reply. Believe it or not, I continued looking in all my cookbooks since I remembered
writing it in the back (I thought) of one of them. I found it!!!!!!! It is very like yours....only it uses four ounces of beer, a pound of crab or faux crab and is baked in the bread wrapped in tin foil for three hours at 250 degrees. Chunks of bread is what I've always dipped in it...I think we'll try some carrots and celery this year.