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This recipe describes how to keep oysters fresh by soaking them in cold salted water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Oysters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cover oysters with cold water mixed with coarse sea salt.

  2. Change the water every 12 hours to keep them in good condition.

  3. Eat oysters immediately after opening.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Oysters
The main ingredient, eaten after opening with no cooking.
Coarse sea salt
Dissolves into the cold water to form a brine that the oysters are held in.

“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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