Beef Kidney Pie

Ingredients

• Cut some kidneys into thin slices
• chopped sweet herbs, such as parsley, thyme, shallots
• with mushrooms
• pepper
• salt
• cover the whole with slices of bacon
• a glass of white wine
• a tolerable quantity of cullis

Method

1. 1

   Layer kidneys in a pie-dish, add herbs, mushrooms, pepper, and salt.

2. 2

   Cover with bacon and bake.

3. 3

   After baking, remove bacon, skim fat, reduce wine and cullis to a sauce, and add Seville orange juice before serving hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 160. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Beef Kidney Pie. Cut some kidneys into thin slices and place a layer of them in the bottom of 3'our pie-dish ; on the top put chopped sweet herbs, such as parsley, thyme, shallots, with mushrooms, pepper, and salt ; continue until the dish is full, then cover the whole with slices of bacon ; finish your pie, and bake it in the oven. When it is done, pick out the bacon and skim off the fat ; take a glass of white wine and a tolerable quantity of cullis

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