Have ready about half-pound of French puff paste. Drain fifty oysters. Put ten into individual baking dishes. Dust over about a quarter teaspoonful of salt, a grain of red pepper, and place in the center a bit of butter the size of a hickory nut. Roll the paste into a thin sheet; with a round cutter stamp out a top. Place this top over the oysters, brush it lightly with the yolk of an egg, and bake in a quick oven twenty minutes. Serve in the dishes in which they were baked. These, if carefully made, are sightly and are certainly very good. |