{"id":3899,"slug":"oyster-soup","title":"OYSTER SOUP","description":"From Fifty-two Sunday dinners: A book of recipes (1913) by Elizabeth O. Hiller.","ingredients_raw":["1 quart select oysters.","4 cups scalded milk.","1 stalk celery broken in pieces.","1/4 cup butter.","3/4 teaspoon salt.","1/8 teaspoon pepper."],"ingredients_norm":["select oyster","scalded milk","celery broken in piece","butter","salt","pepper"],"steps":["Place oysters in a colander; pour over one cup cold water.","Take up each oyster with the fingers to remove bits of shells, reserve the liquor.","Heat to boiling point and strain through double cheese cloth, set aside.","Scald milk with celery, remove celery and add strained oyster liquor to milk.","Plump oysters in their own liquor, take up with a perforated skimmer and lay over butter and seasonings, place in a hot soup tureen.","Strain liquor into milk mixture and pour the latter over oysters.","Serve at once with crisp, hot oyster crackers."],"categories":[],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":null,"source_name":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31534","source_ref":"pg:31534:152","authors_url":null,"license":"Public domain (US)","license_url":null,"extraction_confidence":0.95,"content_hash":"91e43b9f6b911fd0d08e3a6fd5228b883420d107d3a530125386e6bffe992bc3","created_at":"2026-08-02T15:46:46Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T15:46:46Z","notice":"Historical recipe (1913), reproduced as published: it may reflect its era's ingredients, language, and food-safety practices. Apply modern judgment on cooking temperatures and preservation.","url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/oyster-soup"}