Depression Era Sausage Patties
This recipe is a quick oat, meat substitute used when meat was scarce and expensive in the 1930's and beyond. This recipe will make 4 sausage patties but you can easily double, triple, quadruple... the ingredients to make a larger batch that can be frozen and used at a later time. These awesome sausage patties can be pared with maple syrup or gravy if you'd like sausage, biscuits and gravy; or be creative and crumble it into a casserole. With some simple variations you can make a variety of other vegetarian meat substitutes. Check out some of the other amazing recipes made using this versitile base:Burger PattiesChicken Nuggets or PattiesItalian MeatballsFish SticksGround Meat
Equipment
- 1 medium bowl
- 1 medium saucepan or pot
- 1 8-12 inch frying pan
Ingredients
BASE
- 1 cup quick oats
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/4 cup water
SEASONING
- 1 tsp fennel
- 1 tsp onion flakes or minced onion
- 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
BROTH
- 2 cups water
- 2 tbsp brown gravy mix
Instructions
- Mix the BASE & SEASONING ingredients in a medium sized until thoroughly blended
- Cover the bowl and refrigerate for 2 hours or overnight
- Remove from refrigerator and form into 4 large sausage patties or 8 small sausage patties
- Mix the BROTH ingredients into a medium saucepan or pot and bring to a low boil over medium heat
- Lightly oil a frying pan, and lightly brown the patties on both sides (about two minutes per side)
- Once lightly browned, transfer to the pot of broth, cover and reduce to simmer for 20 minutes
- Remove from broth and pan fry another 2 minutes per side or until browned
Video
Notes
These sausage patties will keep in the refrigerator for up to a week or in the freezer for about 1 year. If frozen, simply thaw and heat before serving.
Great article!
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much! I love these patties and having so many seasoning options is great. The texture is unreal how much it resembles sausage patties.
Thank you, Kerrie! This was one of those lost depression era gems that is so flexible as a base. I love playing around with it to see what other “meats” I can copycat. The “Fish Sticks” was one of our latest experiments that actually turned out surprisingly well. Thanks again for the comment.
With the prices of meat today, I’m going to try these! I can’t afford the real stuff
They’re really pretty good and the base recipe can also be used to extend ground meat so that you can double your purchase. Thanks for commenting.
YUMMY 😋
EASY , Very economical, taste great ‼️ Whether your vegetarian vegan or not these are great And in hurricane season where I am in Florida these are great shelf-stable ready to make product And as a video indicated they’re very versatile so it’s a win-win situation folks this is fantastic I give it a 3 thumbs up thank you so much for this recipe God bless to all🥰
Thank you very much! I like to use this base because of its simplicity and I’ve posted several “quick oats…” recipes suck as fish sticks, chicken nuggets and a few others. Give them a try and let us know what you think. Again, thank you for your kind words!