Mrs. C.C. Calhoun's Chafing Dish Oysters
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Holiday recipes from Charleston Receipts, the nation’s oldest Junior League cookbook, published in 1950 and now in its thirty-fifth printing.
Cook Time:20 min
Prep Time:5 min
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Total Time:25 min
Servings: 4
Ingredients:
4 tablespoon Butter
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}1/2 cup thick cream
6 waffle squares
1 pint small oysters
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}1 wineglass sherry
Cayenne, mace, celery salt to taste
Preparation:
Melt the butter in a chafing dish. Add the oysters and cook for 3 or 4 minutes.
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When ready to serve add the sherry. Before ladling onto the crisp, hot waffles, dust with seasonings.