Escalloped Oysters
From Original recipes of good things to eat, 1919.
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Ingredients
Method
Mix bread and cracker crumbs together and stir in melted butter.
Put a thin layer of crumbs in the bottom of a baking dish.
Cover with oysters, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Add half of the oyster liquor and half of the cream.
Repeat the layers, covering the top with the remaining liquor, cream, and crumbs.
Bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for thirty minutes in a hot oven.
Original recipe, verbatim
One pint oysters, 4 tablespoons oyster liquor, 2 tablespoons
cream, Yz cup stale bread crumbs, 1 cup cracker crumbs, J4
cup melted butter, salt and pepper. Mix bread and cracker
crumbs and stir in butter. Put a thin layer in bottom of
baking dish, cover with oysters and sprinkle with salt and
pepper. Add ^ each oyster liquor and cream. Repeat and
cover top with remaining liquor, cream and crumbs. Bake
thirty minutes in a hot oven. Lydia Patterson.
Transcribed as printed in Original recipes of good things to eat, 1919. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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