Oyster Soup

Ingredients

• one quart of oysters
• one quart of cold water
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• 1/2 lb. of butter
• one teaspoonful of flour
• two table-spoonfuls of milk
• one pint of boiling milk

Method

1. 1

   Pour cold water over oysters, rinse, and strain.

2. 2

   Boil the water, add salt, butter, and flour mixed with milk.

3. 3

   Add oysters and boil again before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 167. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Oyster Soup. — To make a plain oyster soup, pour one quart of cold water over one quart of oysters, rinse out the oysters, strain the water into a kettle, and set it over the fire. When it boils, stir in half a teaspoonful of salt, l/\ lb. of butter, and one teaspoon- ful of flour mixed smoothly into two table-spoonfuls of milk ; as soon as it boils add the oysters, and as soon as it boils again pour off into a tureen. When more milk is liked, follow the directions as given above, using one pint instead of one quart of water; when the soup is ready to remove from the fire, have one pint of boiling milk

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