Pickled Oysters

Preparation info
  • Yields

    6

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Bill Neal's Southern Cooking

By Bill Neal

Published 1985

  • About

At an oyster supper, it is usual to have all the various preparations of oysters, fried, stewed, broiled, roasted, raw, and in patties.

Maryland’s Way

This Lucullan Chesapeake oyster supper would seem complete but for one recipe prepared throughout the southern coastlands—pickled oysters. A usually temporary solution to a surfeit of bivalves, the oysters are actually marinated rather than pickled and are served as hors d’oeuvres, salads, o