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Small Oyster Pies

From Original White House Cookbook, 1887

Serves 1

Bake in a hot oven for 15-20 minutes.

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 44. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SMALL OYSTEE PIES. For each pie take a tin plate half the size of an ordinary dinner plate; butter it, and cover the bottom with a puff paste, as for pies; lay on it five or six select oysters, or enough to cover the bottom; butter them and season with a little salt and plenty of popper; spread over this on egg bat- ter

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