Creamed Oysters

#197
Seafood Appetizer Original

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Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons Flour
  • 2 tablespoons Butter
  • 1 cup Milk
  • 1 cup Oyster Liquor
  • 1 quart Oysters
  • 1 Egg
  • To taste Salt
  • Minced Parsley
  • Juice of half a lemon Lemon Juice

Instructions

  1. Cook three tablespoons of flour and two tablespoons of butter together until they bubble, but do not brown.
  2. Add one cup of milk and one cup of oyster liquor and stir until it is a thick cream sauce.
  3. Drain one quart of oysters.
  4. Beat one egg very light; turn egg over oysters and turn oysters into cream sauce; stir for one minute (no longer) and take from fire.
  5. Season with salt, parsley (minced) and juice of half a lemon.
  6. Put in buttered ramekins or scallop-shells, sprinkle with fine crumbs and brown in quick oven, or creamed oysters may be turned over hot toast.