Beefsteak and Kidney Pie

Ingredients

• One pound stewing steak
• One sheep-kidney
• One teaspoonful flour
• Half a teaspoonful salt
• Quarter teaspoonful pepper
• One hard-boiled egg
• About half a gill stock or water
• Rough puff pastry

Method

1. 1

   Make the rough puff pastry.

2. 2

   Mix the flour, salt, and pepper on a plate.

3. 3

   Wipe the steak with a wet cloth.

4. 4

   Wash and skin the kidney, split it open, and remove the core.

5. 5

   Cut the steak in thin slices, dip into the seasoned flour; put a piece of kidney on each slice of steak, and a small piece of fat, if liked, and roll up the steak.

6. 6

   Half fill a pie-dish with the rolls of steak and kidney; put in the stock, and the hard-boiled egg cut in slices; put the rest of the rolls of steak on top.

7. 7

   Roll out the pastry to about one-third of an inch in thickness, rather larger than the pie-dish to be covered.

8. 8

   Wet the edges of the dish and place the strip round.

9. 9

   Wet the edge again and place the remaining piece of pastry over the pie.

10. 10

    Trim off the rough edges of the pastry and decorate.

11. 11

    Cut a hole in the middle of the pie to allow the steam to escape whilst baking.

12. 12

    Brush the pastry with beaten egg.

13. 13

    Place the pie in a hot oven until the pastry is nicely brown; then reduce the heat, and cook the meat thoroughly.

14. 14

    The pie will take from one and a half to two hours to cook.

15. 15

    When cooked, fill up, through the hole in the middle, with a little hot, well-seasoned stock.

16. 16

    Garnish with parsley, and serve.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Plain cookery recipes (1908) by Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Beefsteak and Kidney Pie* One pound stewing steak. One sheep-kidney. One teaspoonful flour. Half a teaspoonful salt. Quarter teaspoonful pepper. One hard-boiled egg. About half a gill stock or water. Rough puff pastry

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