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Essence of Oysters

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. a pint-of sherry
  2. two drachms of powdered mace
  3. White sauces
  4. an ounce of salt
  5. a glass of brandy
  6. Rub
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Take fresh Milton oysters, wash them in their own liquor skin, and pound the fish in a marble mortar.
  2. To one pint of oysters add a pint-of sherry, and boil them, adding an ounce of salt, two drachms of powdered mace, and one of cayenne.
  3. Boil all up again, skim it, and rub it through a sieve ;
  4. and when cold, bottle it off, taking care that it be corked well, and sealed down.
  5. This gives an agreeable flavour to white sauces and made dishes.
  6. By adding a glass of brandy to the essence, it will keep when oysters are out of season.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Mortar and pestle
  • Slotted spoon
  • Sieve