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Panned Oysters

A historical recipe from Margaret Brown's French Cookery Book, by Margaret Brown (1886).

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A historical recipe

Margaret Brown's French Cookery Book, by Margaret Brown (1886). Project Gutenberg eBook #44915.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

France

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. 1/4 pound of butter
  2. 50 large oysters

Method

  1. Take 50 large oysters;
  2. rinse clean and let drain;
  3. put in stewpan with 1/4 pound of butter, salt, red and black pepper to season.
  4. Put pan over fire, stirring while cooking.
  5. When oysters begin to shrink, take off of fire and serve at once in a covered dish well heated.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Wooden spoon
  • Colander
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Margaret Brown's French Cookery Book, by Margaret Brown (1886). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #44915 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44915). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.