Oyster Soup I (Classic)

Ingredients

2 cups milk

2 cups light cream

1 pint oysters

1/4 cup butter

Salt and paprika to taste
 

1. Scald milk with cream in a medium sized sauce pan over low heat, but do not boil; stir in salt and paprika.

2. In Dutch oven heat oysters and their juice in butter until edges of oysters begin to curl, stir in scalded-milk mixture.  Serve.

Serves approx 6