Beef-Pie with Potato Crust

Ingredients

• Mince some underdone roast beef or cold corned beef
• season with pepper and salt
• To a large cupful of mashed potato
• add two tablespoonsful of melted butter
• a well-beaten egg
• two cups of milk
• work in enough flour to enable you to roll out
• add a gravy made of butter and milk

Method

1. 1

   Mince beef, season, and layer in a pudding dish with mashed potato.

2. 2

   Prepare a crust with potato, butter, egg, milk, and flour, cover the pie, and cut a slit in the middle.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery and housekeeping (1882) by Reeve, Henry Mrs., page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

eef-Pie, with Potato Crust. Mince some underdone roast beef or cold corned beef, if it is not too salt ; season with pepper and salt, and spread a layer in the bottom of a pudding- dish. Over this put a layer of mashed potato, and stick bits of butter thickly over it ; then another of meat, and so on, until you are ready for the crust. 152 BEEF. To a large cupful of mashed potato add two tablespoonsful of melted butter, a well-beaten ^%g, two cups of milk, and beat all together until very light. Then work in enough flour to enable you to roll out in a sheet — not too stiff— and when you have added to the meat and potato in the dish a gravy made of butter and milk,

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