This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
9 or 10 oysters. 2 drops of tabasco sauce. 1/4 teaspoonful of grated horseradish. 10 drops of Worcestershire sauce. Juice of 1/4 lemon. 1 teaspoonful of tomato catsup.
Clean and chill sixty small oysters; mix with three teaspoonfuls of fine-grated horseradish, quarter of a teaspoonful of tabasco sauce, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, five tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, three tablespoonfuls of Worcestershire sauce, three tablespoonfuls of tomato catsup, and one teaspoonful and a fourth of salt. Serve in sherry glasses, in grape-fruit, or lemon shells, or in tomato cups. If fresh tomatoes are not at hand, cups may be shaped from tomato jelly. Plain tomato catsup makes a good cocktail sauce.
Peel and scoop out the centres of small round tomatoes; chill thoroughly on ice together with half a dozen Little Neck clams for each tomato. Mix one tablespoonful of lemon juice, one tablespoonful of mushroom catsup, five or six drops of tabasco sauce, a dash of paprika, and one fourth teaspoonful of salt, and pour one tablespoonful and a half of the mixture over the clams in each tomato. Omit the catsup if desired.
Open the chilled oysters. Serve from the deeper half of the shell, on a bed of broken ice, on a plate. From three to six oysters, no more than can be well arranged on the ice, make one service. Pass with these salt and pepper and small thin brown-bread-and-butter sandwiches. Pass a lengthwise quarter of lemon with the oysters on each plate,
 
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