The new Annie Dennis cook book

Oyster Patties Prepare creamed oysters and fill patty shells with the mixture. Serve at once. Deviled Oysters Drain two dozen large fresh oysters, and chop them. Put a teacupful of sweet milk on to boil. Rub a tablespoonful each of butter and flour together, and stir into the boiling milk, take from the fire, and add the oysters, the beaten yolks of two eggs, a tablespoonful of chopped parsley, with salt and pepper to taste. Have the oyster shells washed clean, fill with the mixture, sprinkle with grated bread crumbs, place a small lump of butter on each, arrange in a baking pan, and set in a very quick oven to brown. Serve in shells; garnish with parsley. Make soup of the liquor. Proceed as for stew, omitting the oysters, and thickening it with fine cracker dust, or a teaspoonful of flour mixed with one of butter. Blue Points on Half Shell, Served with Cocktail in Peppers For twenty persons order one hundred oysters and half pint of oyster liquid. Make a cocktail as directed elsewhere. Have ready in cold water ten bell peppers, which have been cut in half, and the core and seed removed. Half hour before ready to serve have the person accustomed to the work open the oysters and place them on trays, saving as much liquor from them as possible. While he does this, have crushed fine, ten or fifteen pounds of ice; place a cupful of this in each tea plate on which the oysters are to be served; place in the center of a plate half a bell pepper, being careful to have it firmly fixed in the ice. Arrange around this five oysters on the half shell, and pour in the pepper two tables poonfuls of the cocktail, which must be ice cold. Place each plate of oysters on a dinner place in front of where each guest is to sit, having on a bread and butter plate at the left side two small graham bread and butter sandwiches. The oyster fork may be placed across one side of the plate, or just beyond the soup spoon on the right. Shrimp Cocktail Use oyster cocktail recipe, substituting shrimps for oysters. Clam Cocktail Same recipe as oyster cocktail, replacing oysters with clams. Oyster in Crackers Prepare with canned oysters when fresh ones can not be procured. Open a number of Boston crackers, and spread them with butter. On one half of each cracker place as many oysters as it will hold, salt the oysters, if necessary, sprinkle Hghtly with pepper and add a few drops of lemon juice. Cover with the other half of the cracker and bake about ten minutes. Fried Oysters Get large plump oysters. Drain off the liquor and salt and pepper the oysters to taste. Roll them in cracker crumbs, then in well beaten egg that has also been seasoned, then in cracker crumbs, and fry in boiling lard enough to cover, until a light brown. A wire basket is best for frying them in, but it not absolutely necessary. Roasted Oysters Ingredients : A winter night, a big hot fire, in an open fireplace, a jolly crowd, oysters in shells, and salt and pepper. Make a bed of hot coals, throw in oysters, and when they pop open, put the shells apart, salt 'and pepper, and eat at once. Oyster Pilau