Oyster Pie

Ingredients

• 1 quart oysters
• 3 pints of cold water
• pepper to taste
• salt to taste
• 1 quart flour
• 2 tablespoons of lard
• 1 teaspoon salt
• mix with water for pie crust

Method

1. 1

   Wash oysters in cold water, drain.

2. 2

   Season with pepper, salt, and butter.

3. 3

   Mix flour, lard, and salt with water to make crust.

4. 4

   Butter a plate, line with crust, fill with seasoned oysters, cover with crust, and bake.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Efficiency in home-making and first-aid to good cooking (1915) by Robertson, Georgia, page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OYSTER PIE. 1 quart oysters, washed in a dish with 3 pints of cold water ; drain ; pepper, salt and butter to taste ; 1 quart flour, 2 tablespoons of lard, 1 teaspoon salt ; mix with water for pie crust ; butter plate, then line pie plate with crust, fill with oysters, seasoned; put over a crust and bake. 130 First Aid to Good Cooking DELICIOUS RABBIT. Clean a young rabbit, and cut up as for frying. Then follow recipe for mock fried chicken, and it will be even nicer than chicken. MINCED MEAT ON TOAST. Take cold meat, either steak, chops, or roasted meat or fowl of any kind ; remove all the gristle, skin and bone ; chop very fine or put through a meat-cutter; moisten with hot water, milk or gravy ; add a little butter if water is used, a dash of salt; heat very hot, and serve on slices of evenly toasted bread. Spread only a thin layer on the toast so it will look dainty and appetizing. HAMBURG STEAK. 1 Yi pounds of beef chopped 1 teaspoon salt. in a meat cutter. x/\ teaspoon pepper. 2 tablespoons water. Mix well together, form into small cakes, being careful to keep them light and fluffy. Do not patdown hard. Broil, or pan-broil, them. Have a strong heat the first few minutes to sear over the outside, to keep the juices in. After both sides are seared over finish cooking at a slower heat. BEEF LOAF. 2 pounds of ground beef. 1 teaspoon salt. 2 eggs broken into meat % teaspoon pepper. without beating. 1 teacup bread crumbs. Mix all together and form into a roll. Put into pan and dredge with flour. Over this pour boiling water, adding a tablespoon butter and bake in the oven \]/z hours, basting often. Then remove roll, and add 1 tablespoon flour mixed with a little cold water. Cook until thickened, finally adding milk, pepper and salt to taste

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