Name: Oyster Croquettes
Ingredients: 1 pint chopped oysters; ½ pint oyster liquor (or milk to make up to ½ pint)

Oyster Croquettes

Ingredients

1 pint chopped oysters
½ pint oyster liquor (or milk to make up to ½ pint)

Directions

Cook the oysters in their own liquor until ruffled.
Chop the cooked oysters and save the liquor.
If you have 1 pint of chopped oysters, make a sauce with ½ pint of oyster liquor. If not, add milk to reach ½ pint.

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.