This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
The richest stew that can be made and with the very largest oysters, called Fulton Market box oysters.
Prepare a square of buttered toast the same as for Boston fancy and put it in a hot bowl. Take a bastingspoon of cream and put it into a bastingspoon of clear oyster liquor that has been boiled before, and add an ounce of best butter. Cook the oysters in another saucepan. When soft done dish them on the toast in the bowl and pour the cream liquor around.
Cost of material - 12 extra fine oysters 24, cream 2, butter and toast 4, table extras, lemon etc., 5; 35 cents. Sells at 60 cents.
 
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