Oysters with Steak Orders

Ingredients

• The oysters, -J dozen if large
• a rounded spoonful of flour
• the same of butter
• nearly a cupful of oyster liquor

Method

1. 1

   In a small frying pan, stir the flour and butter over the fire until light brown.

2. 2

   Gradually pour in the oyster liquor and water, stir to mix, season with salt and pepper, then add the oysters.

3. 3

   When boiling, pour them over the steak.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Oysters with Steak Orders. Price in first-class restaurants 20c to 25c, additional each person. The oysters, -J dozen if large or a lar- ger number of small are in a brown oys- COOKING FOR PROFIT. 21 ter sauce prepared the same as the mushrooms in preceedin^ article or in detail. A heaping tablespoon of flour will thicken a cupful of liquor; only 2-thirds of that amount is wanted, therefore, put a rounded spoonful of flour and the same of butter together in a small frying pan and stir them over the fire until they are light brown and not in the slightest de- gree burnt. Then pour in graduall}^ nearly a cupful of oyster liquor

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