Curried Oysters

Ingredients

• one to two ounces of butter
• an onion
• one to two tablespoonfuls of curry powder
• oyster liquor
• the strained juice of half a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter in a saucepan, fry sliced onion, add curry powder, and mix.

2. 2

   Add hot stock with oyster liquor, cover, and boil.

3. 3

   Add oysters and lemon juice, simmer gently, and serve hot with boiled rice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Oysters à la mode, or, The oyster and over 100 ways of cooking it (1888) by Harriet Anne de Salis, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Curried Oysters. Kari aux Huitres. Put one to two ounces of butter into a saucepan ; when it boils add an onion cut in very thin slices, let it fry ; then stir in one to two tablespoonfuls of curry powder according to the quantity you wish to have ; make it smooth, stirring with a wooden spoon ; add your stock with oyster liquor in it quite hot. Mix well, cover the pan, and let the whole boil. Now put in the oysters, and the strained juice of half a lemon

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