Beef Steak and Mushroom Pie

Ingredients

• a table-spoonful and a half of flour
• a heaped tea-spoonful of salt
• half a tea-spoonful of pepper
• a slice of kidney
• a slice of meat
• stock or water to three-parts fill the dish

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour, salt, and pepper.

2. 2

   Remove fat and skin from meat and kidney, slice thinly.

3. 3

   Place a slice of kidney on each slice of meat, dip in seasoning, and roll.

4. 4

   Layer rolls in a dish, add chopped mushrooms, and rest of meat.

5. 5

   Pour in stock or water.

6. 6

   Prepare Rough Puff Pastry, roll out, cover the pie, and bake in a moderate oven for 2-3 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 105. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Beef Steak and Mushroom Pie. Savoy, Potatoes. Chocolate Pudding. Clieese. Marketing. For the Day.— A bundle of Rhubarb ; two pounds of Rump or Buttock Steak (see January 1st) ; half an Ox Kidney; a quarter of a pint of Mushrooms ; a quarter of a pound of powdered Chocolate ; Potatoes ; Savoy. For To-morrow.— A tin of Prawns ; a slice, half an inch thick, from the middle * of a Canadian Ham, if this is not in the house; a Cow Heel from the tripe shop ; two-pennyworth of Mustard and Cress ; a pennyworth of Watercress. Breakfast. — Mock Woodcock. — Beat two eggs and mix with them a table-spoonful of cream. Warm the anchovies before the fire, put them with the eggs into a small saucepan, and stir them briskly over 128 A YEAR'S COOKERY . •the fire for a minute or two till the sauce thickens. Add the minced tongue, spread the preparation on toast, and serve immediately. Toasted Bacon (January 19th) ; Milk Toast (June I7tli). Luncheon. — Scrag end of Neck of Mutton with Bice (February 21st) ; Stewed Rhubarb (May 19th). Dinner. — Milk Soup (January 3rd). Beef Steak and Mushroom Pie. — Mix together on a plate a table-spoonful and a half of flour, a heaped tea-spoonful of salt, and half a tea-spoonful of pepper. Take away the fat and the skin from the meat and kidney, and cut both into thin slices. Put a slice of kidney upon each slice of meat, dip the two into the seasoning mixture, and roll them into little rolls. Put a layer of the rolls at the bottom of a dish, put the mushrooms (chopped) upon them, and add the rest of the meat. Pour in stock or water to three-parts fill the dish

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