Pickled Oysters

Ingredients

• 100 oysters
• to each 1/2 pint of vinegar
• 1 blade pounded mace
• 1 strip lemon-peel
• 12 black peppercorns

Instructions

1. Get the oysters in good condition, open them, place them in a saucepan, and let them simmer in their own liquor for about 10 minutes, very gently;
2. then take them out, one by one, and place them in a jar, and cover them, when cold, with a pickle made as follows:--Measure the oyster-liquor;
3. add to it the same quantity of vinegar, with mace, lemon-peel, and pepper in the above proportion, and boil it for 5 minutes;
4. when cold, pour over the oysters, and tie them down very closely, as contact with the air spoils them.