Name: Scalloped Oysters
Ingredients: oysters; oyster liquor

Scalloped Oysters

Ingredients

oysters
oyster liquor

Directions

Open the oysters and save all the liquor.
Rinse the oysters in the liquor, then strain the liquor.
Put the oysters in a saucepan with the strained liquor.
Heat the mixture almost to boiling, watching carefully to remove it before it actually boils.

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.