Cassell's dictionary of cookery

Pies. — Recipes for the following pies will be found under their respective headings : — ■ Apple Apricot Australian Beef Beef, Raised Beef Steak Beef Steak and Oyster Beef Suet for Pie CRUST Brandy-mince for Pies Bride Calf's Head Carp Carrot Cherry Chicken Chicken and Sweetbread Cod, Fresh Cod, Salt Conger Eel Creamed Apple Crust, Common, for Raised Crust, Dripping, for Kitchen Use Dartmouth Devizes Devonshire Squab DOWLET Duck Dutch Apple Eel Eel, with Tench Egg Egg Mince Fife Fish Fish and Oysters Folkestone Pudding Fowl, Mock Strasburg French French, Raised Fruit for Invalids Game Game and Macaroni Game, Christmas Game, Hunting Game, Perigord Giblet Godiveau, Raised Goose Grouse Grouse (Scotch Fashion) . Halibut Hare Hare, Raised Herb Herrings Hunter's Icing for Fruit Italian Jelly for, to Clarify Jelly, Meat for, Cold Jelly, Meat for, Economical Jelly, Meat for, Superior Superior Kidney Lamb Lamb and Currant Lancashire Raised Lark Lark, Hot Leicester Leicestershire Medley Ling Lobster Lobster and Oyster Macaroni Mackerel Meat (a la Don Pedro) Mince Moor Game Mutton PIE ( 550 ) PIG Olive, Beef Olive, Veal Oyster Partridge Pate de Gibier Pigeon (a I'Anglaise) Pilchard and Leek Pork Pork and Apple Potato Rabbit Raised Rhubarb Rook Small Birds Snipes, Potted Sole Squab Tench Tipperary Curry Veal and Ham Veal and Oyster Veal and Sausage Veal and Sweetbread Veal, Cold Veal Olive Vegetable Venison Pastry Yorkshire. Pies, Common Crust for Raised i(see Crust, Common, &c.). Pies, Dripping Crust for Kitchen (see Crust, Dripping). Pies, Extraordinary.— A favourite dish at the tables of our forefathers was a j)ie of stupendous magnitude, out of which, on its heing opened, a flock of living birds flew forth, to the no small surprise and amusement of the guests. This was a common j oke at an old English feast. These animated jjies were often introduced "to set on," as Hamlet says, "a quantity of barren spectators to laugh." There is an instance of a dwarf undergoing such an incrustation. About the year 1630, King Charles and his Queen were entertained by the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, at Burleigh on the Hill, on which occasion Jeffery Hudson, the dwarf, was served up in a cold pie. — Dr. Kitchener. Pies, Meat, Jelly for.— Break up two pounds of the knuckle of veal, and put them into a stewpan with the knuckle-bone of a ham, or, failing this, half a pound of raw lean ham. Pour over them three pints of cold water, and add a carrot, an onion, half a bay -leaf, three or four sticks of celery, a handful of parsley, a small sprig of thyme, a blade of mace, two cloves, a roll of lemon-rind, a tea-spoonful of salt, a pinch of cayenne, a lump of sugar, and six peppercorns. Cover the stewpan, and bring the contents slowly to a boil. Remove the scum as it rises, draw the pan to the side, and simmer gently, but continuously, for five hours. Strain the liquid through a jelly-bag, and let it stand until it is cold and stiff . Remove the fat, ^y first scraping it off with a spoon, and afterwards pouring a little hot water over the surface, draining it off immediately, and then wiping off the moisture with a dry napkin. If the jelly has been gently boiled it should not need to be clarified.