Isabella Beeton

Oyster Sauce: Original Recipe

Preparation info
  • Sufficient for

    6

    persons. Never allow fewer than 6 oysters to 1 person, unless the party is very large.
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Great Cooks and Their Recipes
Great Cooks and Their Recipes

By Anne Willan

Published 1977

  • About

It is amusing to find Mrs Beeton subscribing to the ancient fallacy that beating mixtures in one direction makes them lighter.

Ingredients

  • 3 dozen oysters
  • ½ pint of melted butter, made with
  • 1 teaspoonful

Method

Mode

Open the oysters carefully, and save their liquor; strain it into a clean saucepan (a lined one is best), put in the oysters, and let them just come to the boiling-point, when they should look plump. Take them off the fire immediately, and put the whole into a basin. Strain the liquor from them, mix with it sufficient milk to make ½ pint altogether, and make the sauce. Mix the bu