Oyster Patties - Brown

Ingredients

• an ounce of butter
• an ounce of flour
• cup oyster liquor
• about half that quantity of milk
• salt
• pepper
• a tablespoonful of essence of anchovies

Method

1. 1

   Put an ounce of butter and an ounce of flour together in a small saucepan and stir them over the fire until they are light brown.

2. 2

   When done, stir in gradually the oyster liquor and milk, and season with salt and pepper.

3. 3

   Pass the sauce through a gravy strainer.

4. 4

   Scald the oysters separately and put them in the brown sauce.

5. 5

   Use to fill the vol-au-vent patty cases.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 101. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Oyster Patties— Br own. Put an ounce of butter and an ounce of flour together in a small saucepan or pint cup and stir them over the fire until they are light brown, like the crust of a well baked loaf of bread in color, or pise, if time cannot be j^pared to continue the stirring, set it in the oven, for none of it should be burnt black. When done stir in gradually -^ cup oyster liquor and about half that quantity of milk, and salt and pepper to season, and at last a table- epoonful of essence of anchovie

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