Curried Oysters

Ingredients

• a moderate sized Spanish onion
• a lump of butter
• three tablespoonfuls of curry powder
• a sufficient quantity of broth
• a cocoanut
• a very sour apple
• two tablespoonfuls of flour
• a hundred oysters
• the juice of half a lemon
• two or three tomatoes

Method

1. 1

   Peel and cut into thin slices a moderate sized Spanish onion; fry it in butter until browned.

2. 2

   Stir in three tablespoonfuls of curry powder, add more butter if necessary, and mix well.

3. 3

   Pour in broth and boil.

4. 4

   Add grated cocoanut and chopped apple or tamarinds, and boil until tender.

5. 5

   Mix flour with water and stir into the mixture, season with salt, and boil for five minutes.

6. 6

   Add tomatoes and oysters, stir, and stew for a few minutes.

7. 7

   Squeeze in lemon juice, turn onto a hot dish, and serve with rice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896) by Oscar Tschirky, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Curried Oysters. Peel and cut into thin slices a moderate sized Spanish onion; put a lump of butter into a stewpan, place it over the fire, and when the butter boils put in the onion and fry it until nicely browned. Next stir in three tablespoonfuls of curry powder, add more butter if necessary, and mix well over the fire. Pour in gradually a sufficient quantity of broth, put the lid on the pan and let the whole boil up. Grate a cocoanut and peel and chop a very sour apple, or, instead of the apple, a few tamarinds would be best if they could be obtained; put them into the stewpan with the other ingredients, and boil the whole slowly until the cocoanut is tender. Mix two tablespoonfuls of flour smooth with a little water, and stir it into the above mixture; season to taste with salt, stir and boil for five minutes. Put two or three tomatoes, freed from their *seeds, into a stewpan with a hundred oysters and their liquor, also the milk of the cocoanut. Stir them occasionally, and stew slowly for a few minutes. Add this to the former mixture. Squeeze in the juice of half a lemon

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