Vegetable Oyster Soup Recipe

Ingredients for Vegetable Oyster Soup Recipe

• 1 large vegetable oyster
• 1 pint milk or 1 cup milk and 1 cup cream
• ½ tablespoon flour
• 2 tablespoons butter, if cream is not used
• 1½ teaspoons salt

Instructions

1. Put the vegetable oyster into boiling water for two minutes, then put it into cold water, scrape off the skin, and cut into small dice.
2. Put it to cook in one pint of cold water.
3. Cook slowly till tender.
4. Rub half of the oyster through a colander.
5. Put the diced oyster, oyster pulp, milk or milk and cream, all together in a double boiler with the water that the oyster was cooked in.
6. If the ingredients do not make one quart, add water to make one quart.
7. Heat to boiling, and thicken with the flour stirred smooth with a little cold water.
8. Stir in the butter and salt.

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