Toasted Crackers for Oyster Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Split the Boston crackers.
Butter the inside of the crackers.
Place the crackers on a tin.
Bake and serve
Brown them in the oven.
Serve the crackers hot with oyster soup.
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.
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What each ingredient does
- Boston crackers
- Provide the crisp base that holds the butter and browns in the oven.
- Butter
- Adds fat and richness, and helps the cracker surfaces brown and turn golden.
The step that matters
Browning the buttered crackers. Butter and the starches in the crackers brown together in dry oven heat. Too little heat leaves them soft and pale, while too much heat or too long can scorch the butter and make the crackers bitter.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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