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Oyster Cocktail

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. two tablespoonfuls of cocktail sauce

Method

  1. Set five or six oysters, each in the deep half of its shell, on a soup plate holding crushed ice.
  2. In the center of the plate set a small glass holding about two tablespoonfuls of cocktail sauce.
  3. The oysters, taken up with an oyster fork, are dipped into the cocktail mixture.
  4. Occasionally the chilled oysters are set in a cocktail glass, and the sauce poured over them.
  5. This does away with the shells and ice.

Plating

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Credit

From American cookery (1914), printed page 450, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/americancookery19unse_3

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.