Oyster Stew

Ingredients

• one pint of oysters
• one pint of milk
• one tablespoon of butter
• salt
• pepper

Method

1. 1

   Heat milk in a double-boiler.

2. 2

   Drain oysters and rinse.

3. 3

   Boil oyster liquor, skim, add oysters until plump.

4. 4

   Strain liquor into milk, add oysters, and serve.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 115. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one tablespoon of butter and cook two minutes. Add one-half cup of chopped mushrooms, one teaspoon of onion juice, one-half teaspoon of lemon juice and a little salt. Beat the yolks of two eggs and stir in. Then add the oysters. Let the mixture come to a boil and serve at once. 226 The Toronto Cook Book Poached Oysters Butter a deep dish, pour into it some oysters with their own liquor; season with salt, pepper, tomato catsup and tobasco sauce ; scatter over a few bits of butter, and then set the dish into a hot oven. Serve as soon as the oysters are poached, that is as soon as they are firm in the touch. Baked Oysters Select large oyster sand wash their shells thoroughly Place the oysters in a baking pan in a very hot oven, bake until the shells open, remove the upper shells, add a little butter, salt and pepper to each oyster, and serve in the under shells. Oysters It should always be remembered that oysters are only used in the months that contain the letter "r". Oyster Soup Two quarts fresh oysters, one gallon milk, half a pound butter, one pound rolled soda biscuits, pepper and salt. Drain the liquor from the oysters, put the milk and butter into a vessel and heat gradually. When warm stir in the liquor; do this very gradually to prevent the milk curdling; then the rolled biscuits. Let it come to a boil, then add the oysters. In four or five min- utes, or when the edges of the oysters become curled, season and serve. Oyster Stew Take one pint of oysters and one pint of milk, one table- spoon of butter, salt and pepper

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