Mock Oysters

Original Recipe

Grate the corn, while green and tender, with a coarse grater, into a deep dish. For two ears of corn, allow one egg; beat the whites and yolks separately, and add them to the corn, with one tablespoonful of wheat flour and one of butter, a teaspoonful of salt and pepper to taste. Drop spoonfuls of this batter into a frying pan with hot butter and lard mixed, and fry a light brown on both sides. In taste, they have a singular resemblance to fried oysters. The corn must be young.

Ingredients

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  • 1 coarse grater
  • 1 deep dish
  • 2 ears of corn
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoonful of wheat flour and one of butter
  • 1 teaspoonful of salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 frying pan with hot butter and lard mixed
  • 1 light brown on both sides
  • 1 singular resemblance to fried oysters

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Grate the corn, while green and tender, with a coarse grater, into a deep dish.

  2. 2

    For two ears of corn, allow one egg; beat the whites and yolks separately, and add them to the corn, with one tablespoonful of wheat flour and one of butter, a teaspoonful of salt and pepper to taste.

  3. 3

    Drop spoonfuls of this batter into a frying pan with hot butter and lard mixed, and fry a light brown on both sides.

  4. 4

    In taste, they have a singular resemblance to fried oysters.

  5. 5

    The corn _must_ be _young_.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)