It's a New Year's Eve "How do you make your oyster stew?" thread

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My family tradition is just the oysters, their juice, some milke and butter. Then a lot of pepper in the serving bowl for me, along with maybe another tablespoon of butter.

How do you make it?

[robbedvoter]

1. I don't. Fruit salad is my tradition - made over 3 days, humongous

diced in tiny, tiny bits. It provides for hours of fun for my daughter and I in the kitchen (graduated to metal knife this year) and is good. Why oyster?

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4. Not sure why the oysters are such a tradition

Might be a Wisconsin thing or maybe a Norwegian/Swedish influence thing. But we always had oysters on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve. And no other time of the year. Just those days.

Congrats to your daughter for graduating up to a metal knife! I'm glad you're teaching her young how to cook and wield her instruments. Exciting!

[StopTheMorans]

2. put oysters and water in a blender. turn on blender. serve.

[notadmblnd]

3. Same way as you.. my grandpa used to make it for me and my sister

but I always put in extra oysters.

[oneighty]

5. Put fifteen foot tongs in the boat

Put the boat in the water. Go to secret place and tong up a few bushels of nice single oysters.

Back home give oysters to wife say; "Here woman make stew."

She will open the necessary number of oysters, save the juice, saute oysters in steaming hot butter, bring whole milk to a boil, put oysters and juices and butter into the boiling milk. Add lotta pepper, simmer a few minutes.

Out in the yard under a car hood a fire is burning. Remaining oysters are placed on top of said car hood and covered with wet burlap sacks. Soon the oysters are steamed open and those that like oysters pig out.

I never cared much for oysters but it was fun watching my wife and her family 'Oyster out.'

Oh, the stew broth is delicious.

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6. Sounds like my kind of oystering out!

Yummy!