Oyster Soup

Ingredients

• a half can of oysters
• three pints of milk
• half a pound of butter
• eighteen butter crackers
• salt and pepper to taste

Method

1. 1

   Strain oysters and put in a kettle.

2. 2

   In another kettle, heat milk and butter.

3. 3

   When oysters boil, skim and add to milk.

4. 4

   Serve over rolled crackers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OYSTER SOUP. Take one-half of a can of large fresh oysters ; put them in a colander, strain them well, and pour one pint of cold water over them ; add this water to the liquor put into a kettle; boil, and skim closely all the scum that rises; put in one-half gallon or more of fresh unskimmed milk, one and a half tea -cupful of butter, fifteen butter crackers rolled very fine, salt and pepper to taste. As soon as this becomes boiling hot, put in the oysters, and when they begin to boil, take up at once, and serve immediately. Do not add salt until the soup is ready to serve, as it is apt to cur- dle the milk. Mrs. L. C. Dimmitt. OYSTER SOUP. Take one quart. of oysters, one quart of milk, and one quart of water; one-fourth of a pound of butter, three-quar- ters of a pint of rolled crackers, one even table-spoonful of salt, and one tea-spoonful of pepper. Let the water and the The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. 29 liquor come to a boiling, and skim carefully all the scum that rises ; then add the milk, and when it begins to boil put in the oysters; when they begin to curl, put the butter in a tureen and pour the soup over it. Serve with rolled crack- ers. Mrs. Charles Tabb. OYSTER SOUP. After having carefully picked over a half can of oysters to remove the shells, strain the liquor back over them, and put them into a kettle on the stove. In another kettle put three pints of milk and half a. pound of butter. When the oysters commence boiling, skim them; when they begin to curl, take them off and pour them into the milk ; let them just come to a boiling. Have in a tureen eighteen butter crackers

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