Chesapeake Oyster Loaf - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 unsliced loaf bread
butter
2 doz. oysters
1/2 c. cream
1 Tbsp. chopped celery
pepper and salt
2 drops Tabasco sauce
1 tsp. Old Bay or seafood seasoning

Preparation

Cut off top crust of bread and scoop out inside.
Butter 1/3 of bits of bread scooped out and toast in oven.
Fry oysters in butter; add cream, celery, pepper, salt, Tabasco and Old Bay and toasted bread.
Fill the hollowed loaf with this mixture; cover with top crust and bake in moderate oven (350\u00b0) for 20 minutes, basting often with oyster liquor.
Slice and serve hot.
Serves 6 to 8.