Oysters on Spinach

 Ingredients

Oysters

2 pounds Spinach 

1/2 small onion, chopped fine

1/2 cup thin white sauce, with more white sauce to season for service.

1/8 teaspoons Mace

garlic salt

salt and pepper

1 teaspoon Brandy

10 Oysters, shelled but keep half the shells for service

Rock salt

Process

1. Place rock salt in bottom of pan and heat in oven.

2. Wash and cook the spinach. As soon as leaves are wilted, remove from heat and chop very fine.  

3. Add the onion and white sauce. Stir to combine. 

4. Add the Mace, garlic salt, salt and pepper. Stir and heat. 

5. Add the Brandy. 

6. Put in the top of a double boiler and heat. 

7. Take Oysters out of shells. 

8. Lay a good firm layer of the spinach mixture in each shell and place the oyster back on top.

9. Cover each oyster with seasoned white sauce and sprinkle with Mace. 

10. Place in heated pan in the oven. 

11. Bake 10 minutes and serve immediately.

Onion Soup

 Back to my great grandmother's recipes in the old metal box. 

Ingredients

Bone

seasonings

salt

pepper

water

butter

6 onions, sliced

2 slices bread, lightly browned and buttered.

Cheese

Process

1. Place any kind of bone, put in seasonings, and boil a long time with salt and pepper, adding additional spices as desired. 

2. Put in 1/2 bouillon and half cup water. ( make sure it is at least a quart of liquid). 

3. In a frying pan, add 2 Tablespoons butter. Add sliced onions to butter and brown well. 

4. Add the bread to the frying pan and mix thoroughly.

5. Add contents of frying pan to the bouillon.  

6. Top with cheese. 

7. Put in oven. and cook until heated through. Serve in crocks.