Oysters Stewed with Celery

Ingredients

• one hundred oysters
• one stalk of celery
• a teaspoonful of flour
• a quarter of a pound of butter
• little mace
• pepper
• salt to taste

Method

1. 1

   Strain oysters; put the juice on the fire, and cut up celery.

2. 2

   Let it simmer for twenty minutes, then skim out the celery.

3. 3

   Rub flour with butter, mace, pepper, and salt; add this to the juice and let it simmer for a few minutes, then add the oysters.

4. 4

   Let them just scald, and send hot to the table.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 114. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Oysters Stewed with Celery Strain one hundred oysters; put the juice on the fire, and cut up one stalk of celery. Let it simmer for twenty minutes, then skim out the celery carefully. Rub a teaspoonful of flour with a quarter of a pound of butter, little mace, pepper and salt to taste

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