Beef Steak Pie

Ingredients

• Cut three pounds rump steak
• seasoning of salt
• seasoning of pepper
• a small pinch cayenne
• some chopped parsley
• enough water to half fill the dish
• border it with paste

Method

1. 1

   Cut steak into pieces, layer in a pudding dish with seasoning.

2. 2

   Fill with meat to support the crust, add water, cover with paste, and bake for about 1.5 hours.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 351. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cut three pounds rump steak into pieces about three inches long and two wide, allowing a small piece of fat to each piece of lean, and arrange the meat in layers in a pudding dish. Be- tween each layer sprinkle a seasoning of salt, pepper, and when liked, a small pinch cayenne or some chopped parsley. Fill the dish with sufficient meat to support the crust, and to give it a nice raised appearance when baked. Pour in enough water to half fill the dish, and border it with paste (see pastry) ; brush it over with a little water and put on the cover ; slightly press in edges with thumb, and trim off close to dish. Ornament pie with leaves, or pieces of Easte cut in any shape that fancy may direct, brush it over with the loll Glaze, cut a hole in top of crust, and bake in a hot oven for about an hour and a half. Or first prepare seasoning of three parts Bait and one part black pepper, with just a dash of ground nutmeg, and season with it enough thin slices of nice tender steak to fill the dish, which mttst be lined with paste ; sprinkle slices with chopped parslev and roll up, passing a small wooden skewer or wooden tooth- pick through each to hold in place. When dish is full add enough water to malce a good gravy and lay on top slices of hard boiled eggs, cover with the crust, wash over with beaten eggs and bake in moder- ate oven. Should be done when it has baked twenty minutes. For another nice pie take slices of beef cut very thin and a few thicker pieces out of a loin of pork. Spread slices of beef with potatoes, chopped onion and fine herbs ; roll up and tie with threaa. Pack the meat into dish with parsley between each layer ; pour a little fravy over the whole, season liberally and bake under a light crust, eefsteak pie

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