Oysters broil'd an excellent way.
Open some large Oysters, and put them
The compleat cook: or, the whole art of cookery Describing the best and newest ways of ordering and dressing all sorts of flesh, fish, and fowl, whether boiled, baked, stewed, roasted, broiled, frigacied, fryed, souc'd, marrinated, or pickled; with their proper sauces and garnishes. Together vvith all manner of the most approved soops and potages used, either in England or France. By T.P. J.P. R.C. N.B. and several other approved cooks of London and Westminster.
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- The compleat cook: or, the whole art of cookery Describing the best and newest ways of ordering and dressing all sorts of flesh, fish, and fowl, whether boiled, baked, stewed, roasted, broiled, frigacied, fryed, souc'd, marrinated, or pickled; with their proper sauces and garnishes. Together vvith all manner of the most approved soops and potages used, either in England or France. By T.P. J.P. R.C. N.B. and several other approved cooks of London and Westminster.
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- 1694.
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"The compleat cook: or, the whole art of cookery Describing the best and newest ways of ordering and dressing all sorts of flesh, fish, and fowl, whether boiled, baked, stewed, roasted, broiled, frigacied, fryed, souc'd, marrinated, or pickled; with their proper sauces and garnishes. Together vvith all manner of the most approved soops and potages used, either in England or France. By T.P. J.P. R.C. N.B. and several other approved cooks of London and Westminster." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A80288.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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in a dish with some minced Tyme, Nut∣meg and bread grated, and a little Salt; then chuse your largest bottom Oyster shells, and put therein two or three Oy∣sters, adding to them a little Butter; then place these shells on a Gridiron, suffering them thereon to boil till the lower side be brown, supplying it still with melted Butter: when they are enough, put into each shell a little Claret, grated Nutmeg, a little of their own liquor, minced Tyme with grated bread, and let them boil again; then with some drawn Butter dish them up. Scollop—shells are much better than their own to broil them in.