Oyster Stew

Ingredients

• fifty good fat oysters
• a quart of milk
• a rounding teaspoonful of salt
• twelve whole peppercorns
• two level tablespoonfuls of butter
• a tablespoonful of flour

Method

1. 1

   Drain and wash oysters, heat until gills curl.

2. 2

   Heat milk, add to oysters with salt, peppercorns, and butter.

3. 3

   Serve with oyster crackers.

4. 4

   For thickening, rub butter with flour and add to milk before mixing with oysters.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from My best 250 recipes (1907) by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer, page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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