Countess Morphy

Oyster Soup

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Countess Morphy

Published 1935

  • About

This is one of the favourite soups in America and there are many excellent recipes for it, but the following, which hails from the South, is particularly good. Oysters are cheap and plentiful in America and some very much larger than the Royal natives of England.

Ingredients

  • 4 dozen large oysters
  • 1 quart of milk, the oyster liquor
  • 1

Method

Open the oysters and strain their liquor through muslin into a saucepan, add the parsley and peppercorns, and bring to the boil. Put the milk in another saucepan, and add to the boiling oyster liquor when the milk is also boiling. The milk is apt to curdle if boiled together with the oyster liquor. Add the butter, season with salt and pepper, stir well and add the oysters, stir