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Oyster Sauce

From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884

Serves 5

Prepare this sauce about twenty minutes before serving.

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Oyster Sauce. Put fifty oysters, with a small quantity of their liquor, in a saucepan ; stew them very slowly ; add four ounces of good butter rolled in flour, four blades of mace broken up, and half a pint of sweet cream ; beat up the yolk of one egg

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