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Oyster

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Oyster as an animal people have named and used. Closed keep, pearl work, salt defense — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Oyster is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats oysters among shellfish with flesh and pearl-bearing speech entering Roman dietetic and pharmacological chapters. A named oyster in that encyclopedia, not pearl as the gem already walked and not a modern restaurant dump.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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  • Oyster is historically related to Butter.

    In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, oyster soup scalds the oysters then thickens the stock with butter and flour before returning the bearded oysters — oysters are finished with that butter thickening.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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  • Oyster is historically related to Vinegar.

    In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, pickled oysters are covered with a pickle made by measuring the oyster-liquor and adding the same quantity of vinegar with mace, lemon-peel, and pepper — oyster liquor is joined with that vinegar.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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  • Oyster is historically related to Flour.

    In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, oyster sauce puts butter into a stewpan, dredges in flour to dry it up, adds the oyster-liquor and mace, and stirs it over a sharp fire until it comes to a boil.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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  • Oyster is historically related to Lime.

    In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, for kidney stone patients without bladder stone, an English pint of oyster or cockle-shell lime-water is drunk each morning; when a stone is already in the bladder, Alicant soap is paired with three or four pints of that same oyster-shell lime-water daily.

    from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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  • Dozen is used in Oyster.

    In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, oyster soup calls for a dozen oysters bearded and scalded in their own liquor — a dozen is that oyster measure for the broth.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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  • Milk is historically related to Oyster.

    In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, melted butter made with milk is a very good foundation for onion, lobster, or oyster sauce — milk underpins that oyster sauce.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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  • Suet

    In Beeton Book of Household Management, oyster forcemeat for turkey puts finely minced suet into a basin with bread crumbs before adding herbs, eggs, and eighteen oysters.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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European folklore

  • Oyster knife is used in Oyster.

    Beeton’s Book of Household Management seats the oyster-knife among short stout blades for opening oysters in household cookery and service. A named oyster-knife in that oyster frame, not oyster-tongs and not a fillet-knife.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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