Where there is not time to dry the oysters take

6 tablespoons cracker-meal.

2 large tablespoons flour.

Some oyster liquor in a small pan.

Mix the cracker-meal and flour thoroughly together dry. Dip the oysters out of their own liquor into the meal, out of the meal into the extra pan of oyster liquor and out of that into the meal again. Do not rub the oysters as the breading will not stick a second time, but press them in singly. Fry brown in 3 or 4 minutes, garnish with parsley and lemon.

Cost of material - with bulk oysters at 60c per quart of 4 doz. oysters 15, breading 1, lemon 1, 17c. Lard to fry, 2 oz for each dozen oysters either consumed or damaged 2c - total 19c.