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Oyster Coquilles with Celery
Six baked oyster-and-celery shell portions under light Parmesan cream. Source : Alexander Filippini, The International Cook Book (1906), filippini-1906-0941. Adaptation documentaire ; illustration synthétique. Recette non cuisinée ni mesurée par cette campagne. Adaptations : Use inspected oysters and sanitized food-safe serving shells, shellfish 74°C; recovered celery/oyster liquid must be measured rather than inferred from input water. Limites : Celery stalk size, oyster body/liquor mass, actual recovery of 177 mL celery broth and 59 mL oyster liquor, shell capacities and finished sauce thickness remain unmeasured. Do not replace a shortfall with invented water.
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Step 1
Cut the trimmed washed white celery stalk into quarter-inch square pieces. Boil in 473 mL water with half teaspoon salt for THIRTY-FIVE minutes. Thoroughly drain, retaining and measuring 177 mL ACTUAL celery cooking broth. Do not silently top up a shortfall.
Step 2
Heat ONE tablespoon butter with TWO LEVEL tablespoons flour, briskly stirring ONE minute. Add the SAME 177 mL recovered celery broth and 118 mL cream, half teaspoon salt, TWO saltspoons paprika and ONE saltspoon grated nutmeg. Mix and gently simmer TWENTY minutes.
Step 3
Plunge TWENTY-FOUR large fresh-opened oysters WITH THEIR OWN liquor into the separate 237 mL water; boil for the source FIVE-minute guide and verify 74°C. Drain and measure 59 mL ACTUAL oyster cooking liquor. Lightly mix the SAME oysters and celery into the sauce with this recovered liquor, without inventing a liquid shortfall replacement.
Step 4
Evenly divide the preparation among SIX clean food-safe heatproof table shells, four oyster bodies per shell. Sprinkle TWO tablespoons Parmesan TOTAL over all six, place on a tin and bake for the source TEN-minute guide until nicely golden and hot; serve.
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