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                        Mushrooms a l'Algonquin

Recipe By     :  The Fannie Farmer Cookbook  Twelfth Edition
Serving Size  : 4    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Appetizers                       Seafood
               Theme Week

 Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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                       Ingredients:
 20      large         mushroom caps
    1/4  pound         butter
                       salt
 20                    tiny oysters
  1                    lemon

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 400 Deg. F.  Butter a shallow baking dish.  Wipe the
mushroom caps clean.  Melt the butter in a small pan.  Dip the mushroom
caps in the melted butter and coat thoroughly.  Place the mushroom caps,
saucer side up.  Squeeze a few days of lemon juice over each oyster and
drizzle the remaining butter over each.  Put in the oven 8-10 minutes.
Serves hot or cold





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NOTES : Plump toothsome bites.  Arrange five or six on a plate with
toast and a mound of freshly cooked spinach.

Serves 4

Source:  The Fannie Farmer Cookbook  Twelfth Edition
              Revised by Marion Cunningham with Jeri Laber
              Alfred A. Knopf New York, 1980
              ISBN 0-394-40650-8