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Oyster Patties

A baked oyster patty with bread and cream, topped with oysters and sprinkled with sifted bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Oyster and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,545 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Oyster Patties

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Remove gills from oysters.

  2. Stew oysters in cream for 1-2 minutes.

  3. Prepare pattypans with light pastry.

  4. Place a piece of bread in each patty pan.

  5. Add 2-3 oysters on top of the bread.

  6. Sprinkle with sifted bread.

Bake

  1. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until golden.

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 + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,545 recipes

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

  2. Oyster + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,886 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Cream + breadtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Oysters
Provide the main savoury filling and their briny flavour.
Cream
Stewing the oysters in it adds richness and moisture to the filling.
Light pastry
Forms the shell that holds the filling while it bakes.
Bread
Sits under the oysters as a base that soaks up juices and adds body.

The step that matters

Stew oysters in cream for 1-2 minutes. Oysters overcook quickly and turn rubbery when heated too long. A short gentle stew firms their edges while keeping them tender, and the cream picks up their flavour.

“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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