Oyster Toddle

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound of fat salt pork
• 1 pint of sliced raw potatoes
• 1 pint of hot milk
• 1 tablespoonful of flour
• half as much butter
• 1 1/2 pints of washed oysters
• salt
• pepper

Method

1. 1

   Dice 1/2 pound of fat salt pork and cook slowly until well tried out.

2. 2

   Add 1 pint of sliced raw potatoes, cover and cook in the fat until tender.

3. 3

   Pour in 1 pint of hot milk and cook for five minutes; thicken with 1 tablespoon of flour rubbed into half as much butter.

4. 4

   Add 1 1/2 pints of washed oysters, salt and pepper to taste and take from the fire as soon as the oysters ruffle.

5. 5

   Serve with broken hard tack or crackers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from 365 tasty dishes (1906), page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Oyster Toddle. This is a seashore dish and is really a kind of chowder. Dice ^ of a pound of fat salt pork and cook slowly until well tried out. Add I pint of sUced raw potatoes, cover and cook in the fat until tender. Pour in i pint of hot milk and cook for five minutes; thicken with i tablespoonful of flour rubbed into half as much butter. Add i}i pints of washed oysters, salt and pepper

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