Baked Chicken Pie

Ingredients

• one and one-half pounds of butter
• every pound of flour
• three teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• a half cup of liquor
• a large, tender chicken
• almost half a pound of salt pork
• three hard-boiled eggs
• a few lumps of butter

Method

1. 1

   Chop half of the butter into the flour and mix well.

2. 2

   Add ice-cold water to form a stiff dough.

3. 3

   Roll into a thin sheet, spread half of the remaining butter, fold, and re-roll.

4. 4

   Line a buttered dish with the crust.

5. 5

   Layer chopped salt pork and chicken, seasoning with pepper.

6. 6

   Add chopped eggs.

7. 7

   Before topping with crust, add butter lumps and water for gravy.

8. 8

   Cut a design on top and bake for an hour in a slow oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Twentieth century home cook book (1905) by Francis Carruthers, page 75. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a half cup of liquor. An earthen mould is the best. — Mrs. Parkhurst, N. y. BAKED CHICKEN PIE. To make the crust, one and one-half pounds of butter to every pound of flour, and three teaspoonfuls of baking powder ; chop one-half of butter into the prepared flour until it is well mixed in ; add a little ice-cold water, and work it into a stiff dough ; roll it into a thin sheet, and spread on one- half of the remaining butter ; fold it up butter side in, and re-roll it ; then spread on all the butter ; fold again as before and roll out thin ; cut it the size required for the pie. Line the bottom and sides of a well-buttered earthen cake pan or pudding dish with the crust. Then to a large, tender chicken, add almost half a pound of salt pork. Have the pork chopped fine and lay on one layer of pork ; pepper it, using no salt, and cover with pieces of chicken ; then another layer of pork, and so on until the chicken is used up. Have three hard-boiled eggs chopped up and added with the chicken. Before laying on the top crust, place a few lumps of butter

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