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Oyster Soup

From The standard book of recipes and housewife's guide, comprising as complete cook book, 1901

Serves 6

Be careful not to overcook the oysters.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • two quarts of oysters
  • a teacupful of water
  • a quart of milk
  • two tablespoonfuls of butter
  • season with salt and pepper

Method

  1. Strain oyster juice, add water, heat, season, add oysters, stew for five minutes.

  2. Heat milk with butter, pour in, stir for two minutes.

Nutrition per serving

266Calories
24 gProtein
17 gCarbs
15 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The standard book of recipes and housewife's guide, comprising as complete cook book (1901) by Johnson, Alice A.,, page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Oyster Soup. — Strain the juice from two quarts of oysters, add to it a teacupful of water, and heat slowly in a covered ves.sel. When near boiling, season with salt and pepper, add the oysters, and let them stew for about five minutes. Heat in a separate vessel a quart of milk with two tablespoon- fuls of butte

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