Stewed Oysters I

Name: Stewed Oysters I
Ingredients: 2 dozen (24 ea.) raw, whole oysters; 2 oz (55 g) butter; ¼ cup cream; ¼ tsp mace; 2 bay leaves; Salt, black pepper, and nutmeg, to taste

There are several ways to stew oysters. Two recipes are given below.

Ingredients

2 dozen (24 ea.) raw, whole oysters
2 oz (55 g) butter
¼ cup cream
¼ tsp mace
2 bay leaves
Salt, black pepper, and nutmeg, to taste

Steps

Shuck the oysters, saving any liquid in the oyster.
Put your oysters with all their liquid into a saucepan; add the butter, salt, black pepper, mace, and bay leaves.
Bring to a simmer for 5 minutes. Add the cream and shake all well together while heating through.
Pour onto a plate or platter, grating a little fresh nutmeg on each oyster as it lies in the sauce.

More recipes with oysters, butter, cream, nutmeg or bay leaves

Adapted from “Stewed Oysters I” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.