Baked Oysters

Ingredients

• 1 qt small oysters
• 1 cup strained oyster liquor
• ‘/2 cup milk
• ‘/2 cup each butter
• ‘/2 cup each flour
• 1 level teasp salt
• 1 tablesp grated cheese
• a few dashes of pepper
• 1 cup fine cracker crumbs

Method

1. 1

   Wash and drain oysters.

2. 2

   Make a sauce with oyster liquor, milk, butter, and flour.

3. 3

   Season with salt, pepper, and add cheese after cooking.

4. 4

   Parboil oysters until edges curl, mix with sauce, pour into a baking dish, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake until brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant (1907) by Adeline O. Goessling, page 98. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Oysters Wash and drain 1 qt small oysters. Make a sauce of 1 cup strained oyster liquor, '^/z cup milk and % cup each butter and flour. Season with 1 level teasp salt, a few dashes of pepper and 1 tablesp grated cheese. Add the cheese after the sauce has cooked 5 minutes, and remove from the fire as soon as the cheese is melted. Parboil the oysters in a little of their own liquor until the edges curl, then put them in the sauce pre- pared as directed above, turn all into a buttered baking dish, cover with 1 cup fine cracker crumbs

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