Oyster Soup

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (6)
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Instructions (10)
  1. Put the oysters into a sauce-pan.
  2. Strain the liquor from the oysters.
  3. Let the oysters stew for two or three minutes in their own liquor.
  4. Take the hard parts of the oysters and beat them in a mortar with the yolks of four hard eggs.
  5. Rub the oyster and egg mixture with some of the soup (stock).
  6. Put the mixture back with the other part of the oysters and their liquor into a sauce-pan.
  7. Add a little nutmeg, pepper, and salt.
  8. Stir them well together.
  9. Let it boil for a quarter of an hour.
  10. Dish it up and send it to table.
Original Text
YOUR stock must be made of any sort; if fish the place affords; let there be about two quarts, take a pint of oysters, beard them, put them into a sauce-pan, strain the liquor, let them stew two or three minutes in their own liquor, then take the hard parts of the oysters, and beat them in a mortar with the yolks of four hard eggs; rub them with some of the soup, put them with the other part of the oysters and liquor into a sauce-pan, a little nutmeg, pepper and salt; stir them well together, and let it boil a quarter of an hour. Dish it up, and send it to table.
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