Central Avenue Oyster Bar Stew Recipe

Directions:

1. Drain oysters, reserving liquor.
2. Heat together 1 1/2 tablespoons of butter, worchestershire sauce, and celery salt, bring to boil.
3. Add oysters and mixed oyster and clam juice.
4. Heat until the edges begin to curl.
5. Pour in milk and heat just below the boiling point.
6. When ready to serve, split the reserved 3/4 tablespoon of butter between the bottom of your two bowls and ladle the stew over top. Sprinkle with a dash of paprika.
7. “This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they are made of the same things and even cooked almost the same way, an oyster soup should never be called a stew, nor stew soup.”
8. M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992)