The Saturday Sip: December 16, 2023
Your etiquette tip, quote and an Emily Post Cookbook recipe to start your weekend off right!
The Tip
In the absence of a roomy coat closet or the ability to use a portable coat rack, many hosts will direct guests to a particular bedroom to toss their coats (neatly) in a pile on the bed. For a casual party, you might hear, “…come on in; coats are going on the bed in the guest room, and feel free to leave your shoes on.”
The Recipe
Us Posts are suckers for oysters and we’re liking Emily’s recipe for baking them.
Emily Post’s Cookbook, 1951, pg. 50 *Please note that recipes are copied as exactly as possible, including grammatical errors and inconsistencies.
Baked Oysters
Time: 25 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients
2 doz. oysters - fat river ones if possible
1/2 cup butter
1 tbs. lemon juice
1 tbs. chopped parsley
1/4 tbs. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
pinch of cayenne
Directions
One advantage of this excellent dish is that the oysters need not be opened. Wash the shells and put the oysters, resting on their deep shell, in a 400℉. oven. for about 15 minutes. They will have opened themselves.
Melt the butter and stir in the seasonings. Discard the flat shell of each oyster and serve each in its deep shell, six oysters to a person, adding 1 tsp. of the butter sauce to each oyster.
NOTE: Shallow baking pans with rock salt about 3/4 inch deep will make it easy to press the oysters down into the salt to keep them from tipping over.
The Quote
“Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.” - Emily Post
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We hope you’ve enjoyed the sip today. Anyone off to the seafood shop? Tell us about your cooking expeditions for the weekend in the comments. Can’t post here? Head over to the Monday thread, where the comment section is open to everyone!
Enjoy the day!
Lizzie and Dan
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Emily (Price) Post as a young girl with her mother, Josephine Lee Price. Circa 1880