As soon as they rise to the surface, remove them with a fish-slice, and drain them on kitchen paper.
Serve them with brown bread and butter, and slices of lemon.
Oyster Patties.
- Ingredients—6 patty cases.
- 2½ dozen oysters.
- 1 oz. of butter.
- 1 oz. of flour.
- ¼ pint of milk.
- ¼ pint of cream.
- A few drops of lemon juice.
- Pepper and salt.
- A little cayenne.
Method.—Beard the oysters, and cut off the hard white part; cut each oyster in two.
Strain the oyster liquor through muslin.
Put the beards into the milk, and simmer them in it to extract the flavour.
Then melt the butter in a saucepan, and mix in the flour smoothly.
Strain in the milk, and add the oyster liquor. Stir and cook well.