Beefsteak Pie

Ingredients

• 2 oz. of fat bacon
• 2 oz. of bread-crumbs
• parsley
• thyme
• a small onion
• mushrooms
• seasoning for forcemeat
• salt
• pepper
• nutmeg
• 2 eggs
• a tender rump steak
• shallot
• gravy

Method

1. 1

   Make forcemeat with bacon, bread-crumbs, parsley, thyme, onion, and mushrooms, seasoned with salt, pepper, and nutmeg.

2. 2

   Pound and moisten with egg yolks.

3. 3

   Cut steak into thin slices, season, and roll with forcemeat.

4. 4

   Line a pie dish with pastry, fill with beef and forcemeat, add gravy, cover with pastry, and bake.

5. 5

   Make a hole in the top to add reduced gravy.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ideal cook book (1899) by Anne Clarke, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Beefsteak Pie—Ingredients—Forcemeat, 2 oz. of fat bacon, 2 oz. of bread-crumbs, parsley, thyme, a small onion,’mushrooms, seasoning for forcemeat, salt, pepper and nutmeg, 2 eggs, a tender rumpsteak, shallot, gravy. Make some forcemeat with two ounces of fat bacon, twoounces of bread-crumbs, a little chopped parsley, thyme, a small onion and some mushrooms; add seasoning of salt, pepper and nutmeg, pound in mortar, moistening with the yolks of two eggs. Take a tender rump steak

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