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Oyster Patties

A baked dish of oysters topped with batter, pepper, sea salt, flour, and hard boiled eggs, encased in puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Oyster and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,103 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Oyster Patties

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare and fill

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Line small patty pans with puff pastry.

  3. In each pan, place 6 oysters, bits of batter, pepper, and coarse sea salt.

  4. Sprinkle a little flour and chopped hard boiled eggs over the oysters.

Bake and serve

  1. Cover with an upper crust, notch the edges, and bake until golden.

  2. Serve in the pans or transfer to a larger platter.

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. Oyster + eggtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,103 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pepper + flourtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Oyster + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,663 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Oyster + flourtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,582 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (grass, green).

Flour and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Puff pastry
Forms the flaky crust, with layers of butter that puff up as they bake.
Oysters
Provide the main filling and their juices, which keep the filling moist as it cooks.
Flour
Lightly thickens the juices released by the oysters and eggs.
Hard boiled eggs
Add richness and body to the filling.

The step that matters

Cover with an upper crust and seal the edges. The top crust and notched edges keep the oyster juices inside while the filling cooks. If the seal is loose, juices escape and the pastry can turn soggy underneath instead of baking crisp and golden.

“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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