• Prep Time:
  • Cooking Time:
  • Serves: 1 Text

Oysters

  • Recipe Submitted by on

Category: Canning, Shellfish

 Ingredients List

  • Procedure: Keep live oysters on ice until reay to can. Wash shells. Heat 5
  • to 7 minutes in preheated oven at 400 degrees F. Cool briefly in ice water.
  • Drain, open shell, and remove meat. Wash meat in water containing 1/2 cup
  • salt per gallon. Drain. Add 1/2 teaspoon salt to each pint, if desired.
  • Fill half-pint or pint jars with meat and hot water, leaving 1-inch
  • headspace.
  • Adjust lids and process following the recommendations in Table 1 or Table 2
  • according to the canning method used. Table 1. Recommended process time for
  • Oysters in a dial-gauge pressure canner.
  • Jar Size: Half-pints or Pints. Process Time: 75 minutes. Canner Pressure
  • (PSI) at Altitudes of 0 - 2,000 ft: 11 lb.
  • 2,001 - 4,000 ft: 12 lb.
  • 4,001 - 6,000 ft: 13 lb.
  • 6,001 - 8,000 ft: 14 lb.
  • Table 2. Recommended process time for Oysters in a weighted-gauge pressure
  • canner.
  • Jar Size: Half-pints or Pints. Process Time: 75 minutes. Canner Pressure
  • (PSI) at Altitudes of 0 - 1,000 ft: 10 lb.
  • Above 1,000 ft: 15 lb.
  • ======================================================= === * USDA
  • Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 539 (rev. 1994) * Meal-Master format
  • courtesy of Karen Mintzias
  • From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

 Directions



Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05

Title: Oysters "Noon"
Categories: Seafood
Yield: 4 Servings

8 Strips bacon
1 Stick butter
1/2 c Green onions; chopped
1 c Mushroom caps; sliced
2 tb Pickapeppa sauce
1/2 ts Tabasco sauce
1 qt Oysters; drained
1 c Progresso bread crumbs
8 oz Cheddar cheese; shredded
Chopped parsley

Fry bacon in a large black-iron skillet; drain and crumble. Pour off
drippings. Melt butter in the skillet and saut”š the green onions until
soft. Add the mushrooms, Pickapeppa sauce and Tabasco; cook over low heat
for 5 minutes. Add the oysters and cook over medium heat until edges curl.
By this time, oysters should be plump and appear very contented in the rich
sauce surrounding them. Remove from heat, scatter the crumbled bacon, and
sprinkle the bread crumbs evenly. Do not stir. Cover with shredded cheese
and bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until the cheese melts. Remove
from oven and sprinkle with chopped parsley, and EAT DAT!

As a main course: serves 6 gourmets or 4 gourmands. As an appetizer:
serves 12.

 Share this Recipe

Recipes by Course

Recipes by Main Ingredient

Recipes by Cuisine

Recipes by Preparation

Recipes by Occasion

Recipes by Dietary

Sign Up and Create a Cookbook Today!

Please Sign in to your Account or Sign up if you are new user.

Who loves our Healthy Recipes?