Recipes

PICKLED OYSTERS
  • Ingredients
  • 100 large oysters
  • (ask for "counts" rather than the smaller "standards")
  • 1 tablespoon salt
  • 1 pint cider vinegar
  • 2 sticks cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon allspice
  • 1/2 teaspoon cloves
  • 1 teaspoon peppercorns 1 hot red pepper, fresh or dried
Directions
  1. Put the large oysters and their liquid into a pot, with enough water to just cover, and cook until they barely begin to boil
  2. Add a little salt
  3. Skim off the scum on top; then remove the oysters, and set them aside to cool
  4. Add vinegar to the juice, the pepper without seeds, and the other spices
  5. Heat this to a boil to release the flavor of the spices
  6. Put the oysters in jars and pour the hot pickling juice over them
  7. Cool and keep in the refrigera- tor
  8. They will be ready to eat within two days and are delicious!


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