Oysters on Toast

Ingredients

• as many slices of bread as there are members of family
• as many oysters as you need
• add butter
• pepper
• salt
• a little cream
• flour enough to make it as thick as cream

Method

1. 1

   Toast as many slices of bread as there are members of family.

2. 2

   Take as many oysters as you need and scald the pure broth and skim, add butter, pepper, salt, a little cream, and flour enough to make it as thick as cream, and boil a minute to cook the flour, then put in the oysters and let them get boiling hot through without boiling.

3. 3

   Lay buttered toast on platter and pour on oysters and broth.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Oysters on Toast. This may be quickly prepared after everything and all the family are ready for tea. Have coals ready for the toast. Toast as many slices of bread as there are members of family. Take as many oysters as you need and scald the pure broth and skim, add butter, pepper, salt, a little cream, and flour enough to make it as thick as cream

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