Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Erken's oysters à la diable (1914): oysters are placed in their deep shells with a white sauce of butter, flour, milk and oyster liquor, topped with a slice of truffle, more sauce, grated Parmesan and melted butter, set in coarse salt and gratinated golden in high heat.
Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1914-utg. s. 137 (falt i det fri)
One of Erken's French-inspired oyster dishes from the fish chapter of "Stor kokebok" (1914). The oysters are gratinated in the shell with white sauce, truffle and Parmesan – a typical party starter of the era.
Clean the oysters
Open the oysters, remove the beards and collect the liquor. Clean the deep shells well.
Make the sauce
Melt the butter, stir in the flour and thin with the boiling milk and the oyster liquor. Let the sauce simmer gently for half an hour, and season with salt and pepper.
Fill the shells
Place 1 teaspoon of sauce in each deep shell, lay 1–2 oysters on top, a slice of truffle on the oysters and cover with 1 teaspoon of sauce. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan and drizzle melted butter over.
Set in salt
Fill an ovenproof dish with about 2 cm of coarse salt and press the filled shells firmly down into the salt.
Gratinate
Place the dish first on top of the stove so the bottom heats through, and then briefly in a very hot oven – or under the broiler – until the surface takes on a light golden color. Serve at once.
Measurements have been converted to modern units, "salamander" has been replaced with the oven broiler. Quantities for oysters, truffle and cheese are estimated, as the original does not give them. The language has been modernized and the method divided into steps.
Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Revised 1949 recipe
From the revised edition of the Big Cookbook.

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Note on Modernised
Mål er omregnet til moderne enheter, «salamander» er erstattet med grill i stekeovnen. Mengder for østers, trøffel og ost er anslått, da originalen ikke oppgir dem. Språket er modernisert og fremgangsmåten delt i trinn.
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