Stewed Oysters

Ingredients

• One dozen oysters
• One gill oyster liquor and milk mixed together
• half-ounce butter
• Half-ounce flour
• Pinch of mace
• Lemon juice
• One tablespoonful of cream
• Salt

Method

1. 1

   Blanch the oysters in their own liquor; strain them, and remove the beards.

2. 2

   Mix the liquor and milk together, melt the butter in a saucepan, add the flour, cook a few seconds, add liquor by degrees; bring to the boil.

3. 3

   Add the seasonings; cook five minutes.

4. 4

   Put the oysters in the sauce to get hot; add the cream.

5. 5

   Serve with croutons of bread round.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Plain cookery recipes (1908) by Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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