Chesapeake Oyster Loaf

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 loaf bread, unsliced
• butter
• 2 dozen oysters
• 1/2 cup cream
• 1 tablespoon celery, minced
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 1 drop tabasco sauce

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 cut top crust of bread off and scoop out inside.
• 3 butter 1/3 of the scooped out bread and toast in the oven.
• 4 fry oysters in butter; add cream, celery, pepper, salt, tabasco and toasted bread.
• 5 fill the hollowed loaf with this mixture, cover with top crust and bake for 20 minutes, basting often with oyster liquor.
• 6 slice and serve hot.