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Shredded Wheat Oyster, Meat or Vegetable Patties

A biscuit shell filled with oysters, seasoned with salt, pepper, and butter, then baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Biscuit and pepper work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 841 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Shredded Wheat Oyster, Meat or Vegetable Patties

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the shell

  1. Cut an oblong cavity in the top of the biscuit and carefully remove the top and all inside shreds to form a shell.

  2. Sprinkle the shell with coarse sea salt and black pepper, then add small pieces of butter to the bottom.

Fill and bake

  1. Fill the shell with drained, picked, and washed oysters, seasoning with additional salt and pepper.

  2. Replace the top of the biscuit over the oysters and add bits of butter on top.

  3. Place in a covered pan and bake at 350°F (175°C).

  4. Pour oyster liquor or cream sauce over it before serving.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Biscuit + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together841 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Butter + oystertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,184 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Biscuit + oystertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together183 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Biscuit + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,009 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Biscuit
Forms a hollow shell that holds the oysters while baking.
Oysters
Provide the main filling, delivering their savory, briny flavor as they cook.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, carrying flavor through the filling as it melts.
Oyster liquor or cream sauce
Adds moisture and extra flavor to the filling just before serving.

The step that matters

Fill and bake in a covered pan. Covering the pan traps steam so the oysters cook gently and stay moist while the biscuit bakes; uncovered, the oysters can dry out and toughen.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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