Get the largest and finest oysters. After they are taken from the
shell wipe each of them quite dry with a cloth. Then beat up in a
pan yolk of egg and milk, (in the proportion of two yolks to half
a jill or a wine glass of milk,) and grate some stale broad grated
very fine in a large flat dish. Cut up at least half a pound of
fresh butter in the frying-pan, and hold it over the fire till it
is boiling hot. Dip the oysters all over lightly in the mixture of
egg and milk, and then roll them up and down in the grated bread,
making as many crumbs stick to them as you can.
Put them into the frying-pan of hot butter, and keep it over a hot
fire. Fry them brown, turning them that they may be equally
browned on both sides. If properly done they will be crisp, and
not greasy.
Serve them, dry in a hot dish, and do not pour over them the
butter that may be left in the pan when they are fried.
Oysters are very good taken out of the shells and broiled on a
gridiron.