Oyster Cocktail in Pepper Cases
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Oyster Cocktail in Pepper Cases

Ingredients

  • 6 green peppers
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 pint oysters
  • 1 tablespoon horseradish
  • 5 tablespoon tomato catsup
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon tabasco sauce

Directions

  1. Cut the stem end from the sweet green peppers.
  2. Remove the seeds and allow to stand in iced water.
  3. Pick over the oysters to remove any shells, and surround with chipped ice until ready to serve.
  4. Mix the catsup, lemon juice, horse radish, salt and tobasco sauce.
  5. Fill each pepper with four oysters, and put on tablespoon of the mixture on the top.
  6. Serve very cold.

Other Information

Author: Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron

Source: A Thousand Ways To Please a Husband (1917-01-01)

Category: Seafood

Ingredients: green pepper, lemon juice, oyster, horseradish, catsup, salt, sauce

Equipment: measuring spoons, knife

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