Recipe - Oysters Croquettes - Marylands Way

25 Nice fat oysters
2 tablespoon Flour
1 tablespoon Butter
One half cup Oyster liquid
One half cup Milk
2 Egg yolks
One half cup Soft bread crumbs
3 Shakes cayenne
Salt to taste

Drain oysters, saving liquor. Wash oysters and place them in a hot
saucepan; stir over fire until the actually boil. Drain, saving liquor
again, and adding this to first. Chop oysters fine. Blend flour and butter
in saucepan, add oyster liquor and milk; stir over heat until thick and
smooth. Take from fire, add egg yolks, slightly beaten, the oysters, bread
crumbs and all the seasoning. Put back on fire and stir until mixture
reaches boiling point. Turn out on platter to cool and when cold, mold into
croquettes. Roll in braten eg, brread or cracker crumbs and cook in deep
fat.

Yield: 6 to 8 servings

Recipe from "Maryland's Way, The HammondHarwood House Cookbook" Mrs. T.
Murray Peach Hill, Anne Arundel

Reprinted with kind permission from "Maryland's Way, The HammondHarwood
House Cookbook," pub. by The HammondHarwood House Association, c. 1963.
Available for purchase by calling (410) 2634683.
Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #851 by Bill Webster thelma@pipeline.com on
Oct 18, 1997