Chesapeake Oyster Loaf - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 loaf bread, unsliced
butter
2 dozen oysters
1/2 cup cream
1 tablespoon celery, minced
salt and pepper, to taste
1 drop Tabasco sauce

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F.
Cut top crust of bread off and scoop out inside.
Butter 1/3 of the scooped out bread and toast in the oven.
Fry oysters in butter; add cream, celery, pepper, salt, Tabasco and toasted bread.
Fill the hollowed loaf with this mixture, cover with top crust and bake for 20 minutes, basting often with oyster liquor.
Slice and serve hot.