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Cooking & Baking

spinbaby

(15,246 posts)

4. Delicious, but not much to modern tastes

Reply to Walleye (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:36 PM

Jan 29

I think the equivalent modern recipe probably layers stove top stuffing, mashed potatoes, turkey, gravy, and cranberry sauce. Oysters are no longer a common Christmas item and more people aren’t familiar with these tasty morsels.

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Browsing my vintage cookbooks [View all] spinbaby Jan 29 OP

That sounds delicious Walleye Jan 29 #1

It does! rubbersole Jan 29 #2

Yes, we always had oysters in the winter and rolled them in cracker crumbs Walleye Jan 29 #3

Delicious, but not much to modern tastes spinbaby Jan 29 #4

I left New Orleans about 9 months ago. Tom Dyer Jan 29 #5

I love them, too chowmama Jan 29 #6

I'm a lover of cookbooks too AKwannabe Jan 29 #7

I collect Fanny Farmer cookbooks Retrograde Jan 29 #8