Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-10-18
Cooking Oysters.

THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS, at So pei
annum-payable in advance.
Cooking Oysters.
As this is the commencement of the oyster
season, We will let our readers know how t.
cook them For this information We are iu-
debted to the Norfolk Day Book. The Nor
about oysters. They were raised on them:
Oyster soup.-Put two quarts of oysters Ii.
quor and all, in pan, set them on the stove to
heat, but don't let them boil or come very near
toit now drain all the liquor into your soup
kettle and put ia pint of water and two
quarts of new milk, half pound of butter, a
little whole aspice and pepper. Have 1.-THE
oysters all this time where they will keep warm,
add them, and salt to the taste. just as you
are ready to serve the soup. break up some
crackers fine aud and put them into the soup
before the oysters are put 10.
Salt should always be put in the last thing in
any soup, stew or tricasee, where milk is used,
or it is apt to curdle Oysters should never be
and shrinks them all up. If they are to be
stewed, heat them hot, but don't boil them.
Always have the soup or gravy hot,
Oyster ,Stew.-Put as many good fresh oys-
tiers, with their liquor, as you think you will
need into pan on the stove to heat, but not
boil. Drain the juice off into pan. AS soon
as it boils add half pound Of butter and some
pepper. When this boils add pint OF cream
and thicken little with fur after this boils
up once put in the oysters, and more salt if
necessary. Serve bot.
Oyster 1oast.-The same as the proceeding,
but no cream. Thicker the juice little with
-four. When the stew is ready, have a lew
slices of toast laid in dish, we'll buttered, and
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dish hot that you put your oysters IN to send
to the table, as they are so much better hot
than merely warm.
Oyster Step Without Crean1.-Make in all
respects the same as with cream, only subsitu
ting half pint of water for the cream. Many
persons prefer oysters stewed in this way.
Custer Frtter.-Make batter of milk,
flour, eggs, cream ot.tartar, sacratus, salt 10
proper proportion. Don't make any thicker
than for pancakes. Drop an oyster into each
spoop of batter as you dip it out and fry 10 hot
lard Brown we'll on both sides.
Oysters Fred.-Drain the oysters well; roll
in fine. rolled cracker and fry in hot lard and
butter, two thirds lard and one third butter.
Oyster Pe.-Line deep basin with puff
paste; fold o large towel and place inside to
of paste the same as for common pie; put on
the basin and bake slowly. Have an oyster
stew made as above. without cream, and fill
the basin as soon as the paste is done. Serve
Immediately.
A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.-We have been
permitted to copy an extract OF letter to
gentleman in our village, which reveals most
terrible circumstance that happened pear Cen
trails, Illinois. 1t is as follows 1t seems
that in the West when there is any thing ex
ira to be done, one neighbor goes to help the
other so this person wished to put up large
house on his place and was expecting three
other men that day to come and help him ne
killed one of his sheep the day before which
be afterwards gave to his wife to be dressed
for dinner. Well, just before dinner, when they
were all as hard at work as possible, three of his
little children, aged respectively 7, 5 and
years, were playing near by, when tho Oldest
said to the, youngest come put your nead on
this block and Ill show you how father killed
the sheep. So the little innocent laid its head
on the block, and its brother cut its head OFT
sure enough. The men were lifting tremend-
GUS log the end of which had to DC rested
against cross beam, seeing what was hap
peniOg to the children so unnerVed them that
they missed their hold of the log, which fell,
killing the father and two other men on the
apot."- Manassas Gazette.
A DIsaRACEFUL PROCEDURE. The butchers
OF the market, to their everlasting credit, saw
iii, yesterday, to place the market. house ID
mourning. The Radical authorities of the city
ordered the keeper of the market, Miles Con-
ner, to tear down the mourntul emblems. The
market keeper did so, and the movement
created such an intense excitement on High
street, that in few moments croWi OF cltl
zens gathered, Grape was procured, and the
evidences OF a community's sorrow were again
as prominently placed 10 the public market
place Everything was done quietly, notwIth-
standing the feeling that prevailed. We can
not but express our utter contempt Tor those
who instituted the proceedings against our
market people, who are men OF able and gen.
crous impulses, and who, In nations calami
ty, saw fl to honor the memory OF Virginia's
heroic dead. We sincerely hope our Mayor is
not responsible for so disgracefuI desecratiop;
but we learn that his honor and James Il.
Clements, member Of the board of City
Council, ordered the tearing down of the
mourning. g.-NortoM Journal.
Franc TIREURs.-T has been much ar.
gument on the streets among the reading pub
lie as to the correct definition OF the word franc
tireur. The word franc, in the French langu-
age, means free, and tireur, shooter, and IN
France, by the payment of trifing sum Of
money, any Que may obtain license to keep a
gun and shoot freely after all the necessary
formulas are gone through. Hence he is franc
tireur, or free shooter. Many 10 this country
suppose them to be sharp shooters, but the
French word for sharp-shooter is tiraeur,
and it can be readily perceived that there is
no similarity between that and franc tireur. -
They may be sharp shooters, it is true, but it
is due to their constant practice during the
shooting season in France, and to that same
license which guarantees to them the free
use of arms.
THE ARLINGTON PRoPERTY.-lt is general
" believed that the Government holds the
Arlington estate under the cop6scation act
which if true, the property would now reyer
Il Gan Lee II was left hY Mr.