Luncheon Oyster Cups
- 18 each oysters and their liquid
- 2 1/4 cups milk
- 1 tablespoon margarine
- 1 each pimentos
- 1 cup cheese grated
- 1 cup celery chopped
- 1 x flour, all-purpose
- 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening
- 1 teaspoonful salt
- 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder
- Melt the margarine, add three tablespoonfuls of flour, and cook until the mixture bubbles.
- Add one and one-half cupfuls of cold milk gradually, stirring constantly.
- Stir in the celery and cook twenty minutes in a double-boiler.
- Add the pimiento chopped and the cheese.
- Cook the oysters in their own liquor until the edges curl, and add them, cut in small pieces, together with the liquor strained, to the white sauce.
- Serve in cups made of the following mixture: sift together two cupfuls of bread flour, the salt, and the baking-powder.
- Mix in the shortening thoroughly and add about three-fourths cupful of milk or enough to make a soft dough.
- Toss on a well-floured board, roll to one-have inch thickness, and cut with a biscuit cutter.
- Press each biscuit over an inverted greased gem-pan.
- Bake a delicate brown in a 450F (230C).
- oven.
- Arrange on a hot platter and fill the cases with the oyster mixture.
oysters, milk, margarine, pimentos, celery, flour, vegetable shortening, salt, baking powder
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/luncheon-oyster-cups-37486 (may not work)