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Pepper (Mix bread and cracker crumbs)

Mix bread and cracker crumbs, and stir in butter. Put a 1/2 cup stale bread crumbs thin layer in bottom of a buttered shallow baking-dish, cover with oysters, and sprinkle with salt and pepper; add onehalf each oyster liquor and cream. Repeat, and cover top with remaining crumbs. Bake thirty minutes in hot oven. Never allow more than two layers of oysters for Scalloped Oysters; if three layers are used, the middle layer will be underdone, while others are properly cooked. A sprinkling of mace or grated nutmeg to each layer is considered by many an improvement. Sherry wine may be used in place of cream. Sautéd Oysters Clean one pint oysters, sprinkle on both sides with salt and pepper. Take up by the tough muscle with plated fork and dip in seasoned cracker crumbs. Put two tablespoons butter in hot frying-pan, add oysters, brown on one side, then turn and brown on the other.