Beef and Oyster Sausages

Another English-derived eighteenth-century recipe calls for minced beef mixed with minced oysters to make round “sausage” cakes of delicious flavor. This is the kind of “made” dish the lady of the plantation would teach her black cook to do or would prepare herself, along with Caveached Mackerel or Ragout of Veal with Sweetbreads. Sarah Rutledge’s recipe of 1847 in The Carolina Housewife is probably from the same source as that of the