Oyster Patties

Ingredients

• 1 oz. butter
• 1 oz. flour
• 2 dozen oysters with their liquor
• Salt
• Cayenne pepper
• The juice of half a lemon
• 1 table-spoonful cream
• Puff paste

Method

1. 1

   Roll the paste to half an inch in thickness, cut it in rounds about three inches in diameter, mark on the tops with a smaller round, and bake in a brisk oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Chambers's cookery for young housewives (1894) by Annie M. Griggs, page 57. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

oyster patties, &c. Pass the flour through a hair-sieve, and dry it ; put it into a basin; add the juice of half a lemon strained, and enough cold water to mix to a damp paste ; turn the paste on to a floured board, and work it heavily with the palms of the hands till it is quite smooth ; then flour a heavy rolling-pin, and roll it out in any direction to about a quarter of an inch in thickness. Take the butter, put it into a clean, soft cloth, and press all the moisture from it ; lay it in the middle of the paste, and cover it over tightly so as to seal the butter into the paste ; then roll it out to about half a yard in length, being careful not to roll over the edges or to let the butter appear. Fold the paste evenly in three, place it on a floured paper or sieve, and put it aside in a very cool place for fifteen minutes; then bring it to the board again, and roll it 1 sole. 2 hard-boiled eggs. Cayenne pepper. J02 OYSTER PATTIES — PUDDINGS, CUSTARDS, JELLIES. twice in the same manner, folding each time in three, and turning it lialf-way round ; put it aside for fifteen minutes, and then give it two more turns; put it away for fifteen minutes, and, finally, give it two more turns, making seven turns in all. After rolling it for the seventh time, rub it over with a little lemon-juice, fold it evenly in three, let it stand for a few seconds, and then roll it to the size and thick- ness required OYSTER PATTIES. 1 oz. butter. 1 oz. flour. 2 dozen oysters with their liquor. Salt. Cayenne pepper. The juice of half a lemon. 1 table-spoonful cream. Puff paste

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.