Scalloped Oysters for Hotel Dinner

Ingredients

• 8 dozen oysters
• 12 ounces of butter
• 2 pounds of fine bread and cracker crumbs
• 1 pint of milk
• pepper
• salt

Method

1. 1

   Use a shallow 4-quart milk pan.

2. 2

   Spread a little of the butter all over the bottom and cover that with a layer of the mixed bread crumbs.

3. 3

   Scald the oysters in their liquor just enough to make them shrink a little and place half of them close together on the layer of crumbs.

4. 4

   Then more crumbs, butter dropped about in small pieces, pepper and salt; then the rest of the oysters and cover with the remaining bread crumbs and butter.

5. 5

   Mix the milk with the oyster liquor, strain into the pan, moistening the top all over.

6. 6

   Bake from 20 to 30 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 100. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Scalloped Oysters for Hotel Dinner. The thing to be guarded against is the getting it all bread and dry and hard and for that reason uneatable These proportions make it right. 8 dozen oysters and their liquor. 12 ounces 2 — cups butter. 2 pound fine bread and cracker crumbs mixed. 1 pint milk. Pepper and salt

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.