Stewed Oysters

Mary Eaton, Bungay, Suffolk, 1823

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Florence White

Published 1932

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Ingredients

  • Oysters; mace, a bit
  • lemon peel
  • pepper, a few white ones
  • butter and flour
  • cream

Method

  1. Open the oyster shells.
  2. Separate the liquor from the oysters.
  3. Beard them.
  4. Strain the liquor into a stewpan, add the oysters, a bit of mace, lemon peel, and a few white peppers.
  5. Simmer them very gently for 5 minutes, strain, take out the lemon peel, peppers and mace, return them and the liquor to the stewpan; put in