Oyster Soup

Ingredients

• one hundred oysters
• three pints of milk
• a quarter of a pound of butter
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• a small saltspoonfiil of pepper
• four hard-boiled eggs
• three crackers
• one head of eelery

Method

1. 1

   Boil three pints of milk and set aside.

2. 2

   Put the oysters over the fire with butter, salt, and pepper; simmer until the oysters show their beards.

3. 3

   Add the boiled milk, bring to a boil, and pour over chopped eggs, crackers, and celery in a tureen.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The economical cook book (1905) by Sara T. Paul, page 2. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a small saltspoonfiil of pepper; simmer them until the oysters show their beards, then add the boiled milk; bring it to a boil; have ready four hard-boiled egg^ ohopped fine, three eraokers rolkdy and one head of eelery ohopped small ; put these into the tureen; when the soup boils, pour it over thmn and senre. * Oyster Soup, Vo. S. Btndn the juioe from one hundred oysters, put it over the Ire with half a teaspoonful of salt; when the seum rises, strain the juiee through a clean oloth or fine sieve ; boil three pints of milk, add the oysters and juioe, and six ounces of butter rubbed to a paste with a heaping tablespoonfU of flour; bring all to a boil, season with pepper and, if needed, a little more salt, and serre. a) 8 aOOKEBT FROM EXPEBIBNQK • 01am Soup. Wftsh the olam dielb very oleaii, pat diem in a dripping-pan and set them in a hot OYen for Sye minnteBy or until the sheUs open; take them firom their shelb, Baving all the joioe; if the olamB are large, ehop them ; if the little eoft-shell elamiy they muflt be left whole. Boil three pints of milk, add the jnice, a blade of maoe, a little blaok pepper, a hard-boiled egg ohopped fine, a teaspoonfU of ohopped parsley, two roDed oraokers, and a quarter of a pound of butter

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