Beefsteak Pie

Ingredients

• 1 lb. lean meat
• 1 oz. flour
• 1¼ gills water
• 1 tablespoonful ketchup
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• ½ teaspoonful pepper

Method

1. 1

   Cut meat into thin pieces, dip in flour, pepper, and salt.

2. 2

   Place in a pie dish with water and ketchup.

3. 3

   Cover with pastry, seal edges, and bake in a hot oven for 5 minutes, then in a cooler part for 45 minutes to 1 hour.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The school cookery book (1881), page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

teaspoonful salt ; 1 pinch pepper. Roll out the crust to a neat square ; break the fish into small pieces, removing the bones. Mix it with the boiled rice, parsley, dripping, salt and pepper. Place this mixture in the centre of the square of paste ; wet the edges of the paste ; fold it in from the corners like an envelope, bringing one comer over the other. Brush the whole over with a little milk, and bake in a quick oven for half an hour. The pie may be made richer by mixing a raw egg with the other ingredients before placing them on the paste. Beefsteak Pie. — Required: Flaky or short crust; lb. lean meat ; 1 oz. flour ; 1 *4 gills water ; 1 table- spoonful ketchup; teaspoonful salt; % teaspoonful pepper.

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