Corn Oysters

    Good news! The "corn oysters" turned out great! After last night's chicken debacle I needed a cooking success. 

    This recipe comes not from an actual cookbook, but from a vintage household booklet put out by "Consumers Power Company" of Grand Rapids, MI. It is called, "Good Housekeeping Secrets" and is dated 1926.

 

    It includes a couple of appropriate poems and quotes: 

    "We may live without poetry, music and art; 

     We may live without conscience, and live without heart; 

     We may live without friends; we may live with- out books; 

     But civilized man cannot live without cooks." 

                                                    -Meredith 

and:

    "Nothing lovelier can be found, In woman, than to study household good."   

                                                    -Milton                   

    

    This little tome has chapters such as: 

    How To Launder Clothes Properly 

    The Art of Furnishing 

    The Home 

    Making Work Easier in the Home 

    and 

    Who Is The Best Liked Hostess?

    The booklet is peppered with ads for Sunbeam irons. But, also a product called the Sunbeam Reversible Toaster and Table Stove. I fell in love with it on sight!! It is a contraption that makes toast on top and has a little heated drawer underneath that cooks bacon, eggs, and other things like...."corn oysters"! I have scoured the internet for one of these "table stoves", and while I was unable to find the Sunbeam one, I did locate on Ebay, several people selling an Armstong Table Stove. It is like a "beefed up" version of the Sunbeam product. I love it and will tell you more about it later...as one is winging it's way towards me now. 

    For now though... 

Corn Oysters 

    Mix one-fourth of a cup of cracker crumbs, two-thirds of a cup of canned corn, a teaspoon of melted butter, one beaten egg and seasoning of salt and black pepper. 

    With reflector directly under the coils, heat two teaspoons of butter in the pan over the coils, drop corn mixture by spoonfuls and turn carefully when lightly browned on the bottom. Remove to hot serving plate when done. 

    Cook bacon below in the same pan, after rubbing with soft paper, and make toast above. A hearty breakfast for a snappy morning.  

Obviously, I just cooked the bacon and the corn oysters in frying pans on the stove. The "corn oysters" were basically little oyster-shaped fritters. They were buttery and tasty and went well with the bacon. My aunt Jill (guinea pig to all of my culinary endeavors) got one shaped like a little foot. She insisted in pointing out how the corn kernels formed four individual little toes. We briefly entertained the idea of selling it on Ebay and then she ate it. A fine recipe! I can't wait until I am able to add pictures to my blog!!!