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Escaloped Oysters

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Escaloped Oysters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Crush and roll several handfuls of friable crackers; put a layer in the bottom of a buttered pudding dish ; wet this with a mixture of the oyster liquor and milk, slightly warmed ; next a layer of oysters ; sprinkle with salt and pepper, and lay small bits of butter upon them then another layer of moistened crumbs, and so on until the dish is full. Let the top layer be of crumbs, thicker than the rest, and beat an egg into the milk you pour over them ; put pieces of butter on top ; cover the dish ; bake half an hour.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

6Calories
0 gProtein
0 gFat
2 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Home for the Friendless (Chicago, Ill.). Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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