Ingredients - One dozen oysters. Half an ounce of butter. One-quarter of an ounce of flour. One tablespoonful of cream. Lemon-juice and Cayenne pepper.

Time required, about twenty minutes.

To Cook Codfish and make Oyster-Sauce:

1. Take a slice of cod weighing one pound.

2. Put it in a basin of cold water and wash it well.

3. Take a small fish-kettle of boiling water and add to it as much salt as will make the water taste salt.

4. Put the fish-kettle on the fire.

5. Take the cod out of the basin and place it on the drainer in the fish-kettle, and let it boil for fifteen minutes.

N. B. - It must not boil fast.

6. When the slice of cod is sufficiently cooked, the flesh will leave the bones.

N. B. - The bone is usually left in, or the fish would break to pieces.

7. Serve the slice of cod on a folded napkin on a hot dish, with oyster-sauce.

For Oyster-Sauce

1. Take one dozen oysters and the liquor that is with them, and put them into a small saucepan.

2. Put the saucepan on the fire and bring them to the boil; this is to blanch the oysters.

3. Take the saucepan off the fire as soon as it boils.

4. Take a basin and pour into it the oyster-liquor through a strainer.

5. Take the oysters out of the saucepan and lay them on a plate.

6. Take off the beards and all the hard parts of the oysters, leaving only the soft part.

7. Take a stewpan and put in half an ounce of butter and a quarter of an ounce of flour.

8. Mix the flour and the butter well together with a wooden spoon.

9. Now add to the contents of the stewpan the oyster-liquor which is in the basin.

10. Put the stewpan on the fire, and stir the mixture well with a wooden spoon until it boils and thickens.

11. Now add one tablespoonful of cream, and stir again until it boils.

12. Take the stewpan off the fire' and stand it on a piece of paper on the table.

13. Add six drops of lemon-juice and a few grains of Cayenne pepper, according to taste.

14. Take the trimmed oysters and cut them into small pieces.

15. Add the pieces of oyster to the mixture in the stew-pan, and mix all together with a wooden spoon.