Oyster Patties, Household Style

Ingredients

• 1 cupful oysters
• 1 cup milk
• 1 large tablespoon flour
• Butter size of a walnut
• Pepper
• salt
• 1 pound short pie paste

Method

1. 1

   Boil the milk, thicken it with the flour mixed up with a little cold milk, add a little salt and the butter, and beat until the butter is melted.

2. 2

   Roll out the common pie paste very thin, cut out with a large biscuit cutter, and line the patty pans.

3. 3

   Put a few raw oysters in each, sprinkle with pepper and salt, nearly fill with the thick white sauce previously made, cut out more flats from the sheet of paste and put them on as lids.

4. 4

   Brush over with mixed yolk of egg and water and bake.

5. 5

   Serve hot with a sprig of parsley on top for ornament.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 102. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Oyster Patties, Household Style. Provide 12 deep tin patty pans hold- ing each iibout ^ cup; 1 cupful oysters. 1 cup milk. 1 large tablespoon flour. Butter size of a walnut. Pepper and salt. 1 pound short pie paste

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