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Lunch

Oyster Bisque

A turn-of-the-century lunch recipe featuring oysters, with the original instructions and source page intact.

LunchVegetarianStovetopPublic domainHistoric recipeSource transcription
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What you’ll need

Ingredients

  • 1 quart oysters
  • 2 cups White Stock III
  • 1½ cups stale bread crumbs
  • 1 slice onion
  • 2 stalks celery
  • Sprig of parsley
  • Bit of bay leaf
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • 4 cups scalded milk
  • Salt
  • Pepper

Make it happen

Directions

  1. 1

    Clean and pick over oysters, reserving liquor, setting aside soft portions, and chopping gills and tough muscles. Cook White Stock, bread crumbs, reserved liquor, chopped oyster, onion, celery, parsley, and bay leaf thirty minutes. Rub through a sieve, bring to boiling-point, and bind with butter and flour cooked together. Add milk, soft portion of oysters, and salt and pepper to taste.

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