The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook


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The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook  
4
tablespoons  
butter  
1
teaspoon  
Worcestershire Sauce  
tablespoons  
Few drops onion juice  
4
flour  
1
cup oyster  
liquor  
Salt  
Pepper  
Clean oysters, parboil, and drain. Melt butter, add flour, and stir until well browned. Pour on  
gradually, while stirring constantly, oyster liquor and stock. Add seasonings and oysters.  
Serve  
on toast, in timbale cases, patty shells, or vol−au−vents.  
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52  
Oysters à la Astor  
pint oysters  
1
2
1
1/2 teaspoons lemon  
juice  
tablespoons  
butter  
1
1/2 teaspoons  
vinegar  
teaspoon finely  
chopped shallot  
1
1
teaspoon  
Worcestershire  
Sauce  
1
tablespoon  
finely cut red  
pepper  
2
tablespoons  
flour  
1
/2 teaspoon beef  
extract  
Salt and paprika  
Wash and pick over oysters, parboil, drain, and to liquor add enough water to make one cup  
liquid; then strain through cheese−cloth. Cook butter, shallot, and pepper three minutes, add  
flour, and pour on gradually, while stirring constantly, oyster liquor. Add seasonings and  
oysters. Remove oysters to small pieces of bread sautéd in butter on one side. Pour sauce over  
oysters and garnish with thin slices of cucumber pickles.  
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Chapter XI − FISH  
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