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Oysters, Patties of, with Mushrooms

Prepare and bake the patties as in the last recipe. Trim, wash, drain, and dry five or six button mushrooms. Cut them into small pieces, and fry them in half an ounce of fresh butter for four or five minutes. Beard a dozen oysters, thicken the liquor with a tea-spoonful of flour, and pour it over the mushrooms, with a table-spoonful of veal gravy and a table-spoonful of thick cream. Season with a pinch of salt, a pinch of pepper, a pinch of cayenne, and the eighth of a small nutmeg, grated. Stir in the oysters, simmer all gently for about half a minute, fill up the patties, and serve. Time, twenty minutes to bake the patties. Probable cost, 6d. each. Sufficient for a dozen patties.