Name: Fried Oysters
Ingredients: cornmeal; coarse sea salt; black pepper; bacon; cooking fat

Fried Oysters

Ingredients

Directions

Season cornmeal with a generous pinch of coarse sea salt and a dusting of black pepper.
Fry strips of bacon until crispy and set aside.
Dip oysters in the seasoned cornmeal.
Immerse oysters in hot cooking fat and fry until golden brown.
Serve hot with the crispy bacon.

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.