Name: Oyster Sauce: Original Recipe
Yield: Sufficient for 6 persons. Never allow fewer than 6 oysters to 1 person, unless the party is very large.
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 3 dozen oysters; a few grains of salt.; ⅓ pint of milk; 2 oz butter; ½ pint of melted butter, made with; 1 teaspoonful of flour

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

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