Everybody's familiar with "Hangtown Fry"?

Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq. wrote:
>
> Take selected oyster, open them and leave them on the deep half shell.
> Place the shells containing the oysters on a bed of rock salt in a pie
> pan. The sauce for the oyster is compounded as follows:
>
> Take the tail and tips of small green onions. Take celery, take
> chervil, take tarragon leaves and the crumbs of stale bread. Take
> Tabasco sauce and the best of butter obtainable. Pound all these into a
> mixture in a mortar, so that all the fragrant flavorings are blended.
> Add a dash of absinthe.
>
> Force the mixture through a fine meshed sieve. Place 1 spoonful on each
> oyster as it rests on its own shell and in its own juice on the crushed
> rock salt, the purpose of which is to keep they oyster piping hot. Then
> place them in an oven with overhead heat and cook until brown. Serve
> immediately. Thus spoke Monsieur Alciatore to your humble servant.
>
> Tom, whom to day no noise stirs,
> Lies buried in these cloisters;
> If at the last trump
> He does not quickly jump,
> Only cry, "OYSTERS."
> --Epitaph on a Colcheter (England) Man's Grave"
>
> For the sake of comparison here is a googled version with suggestions
> for a substitute for the absinthe.
>
>
> http://www.gumbopages.com/food/app/erstas-rock.html
>
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Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.

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