Recipe - Asparagus With Oyster Sauce

Fresh asparagus 6 or 7
Spears/person
Fresh or frozen oysters
Allow 3 per person
2 tablespoon Dry white wine
2 Egg yolks
20 g Butter
Salt, pepper, cayenne

Another recipe courtesy of John Morris, butcher and caterer in Rockhampton,
Queensland, Australia, as discussed on ABC [Australian Broadcasting Corp.]
Radio on Sunday 13 March 1994 in the "Queensland Sunday" programme.

John opened the discussion by stating that this is NOT a Lenten meal ;)
(He recommended it for breakfast in bed on Sunday mornings in fact.)

Allow 6 or 7 spears per person. Not too thin and not too old.

Trim bottom 1" of the asparagus spears and peel the lower part if necessary
(shouldn't be required if you've selected the bunches correctly and trimmed
off the bottoms) then poach them gently get about 1" of water boiling in
a flat pan and lay the spears in it to cook for about 7 minutes (or use a
Europeanstyle tall asparagus boiler if you must).

Cut the oysters into thin strips rather than serving them as lumps.

Reserve the juice from the oyster shells should get about 2 tablespoon
from 6 oysters. Mix this with the dry white wine and reduce over heat by
about 2/3rds (i.e. you'll have about 1 One half tablespoon left).

Add this liquor and about 4 tablespoon of the poaching water slowly to the
egg yolks and whisk them over very low heat until light and frothy (note:
do not have the liquor or the other fluid too hot when adding to the eggs
you don't want to curdle them).

Add seasoning. Then draw the sauce together by adding 20 gram of *cold*
minced butter and stirring it in gently. Add the oyster strips and fold
through.

Lay the freshly cooked asparagus spears on the serving plates and pour the
oyster sauce over them (fairly now ;).

Recipe By : ianst@qdpii.ind.dpi.qld.gov.au (Ian Staples)

File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/mmdja006.zip