Oysters Rockefeller

Photo by Mikkel Vang

Ingredients

3 tablespoons scallion greens
3 bacon slices
10 cups kosher salt
3 tablespoons fresh bread crumbs (preferably from a day-old baguette)
¾ cup watercress sprigs
20 small oysters on the half shell, oysters picked over for shell fragments and shells scrubbed well
1 cayenne
+ 5 more ingredients
- 1 teaspoon Pernod or other anise-flavored liquor
- 3 ½ tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 teaspoons celery
- 1 tablespoon parsley
- 1 ¹/₃ cups baby spinach

Toss together watercress, spinach, scallion greens, parsley, celery, and 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon bread crumbs in a bowl. Melt butter in a 10-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat, then add watercress mixture and cook, stirring, until spinach is wilted, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in Pernod, cayenne...

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