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Chicken Pie

From The handy dictionary of cookery, 1890

Forcemeat balls are made by pounding cooked liver, tongue, ham, yolks of hard-boiled eggs, and butter.

Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The handy dictionary of cookery (1890) by Mary A. Everard, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chicken Pie. Take a young chicken ; cut it up into neat joints. Place in a pie-dish a layer of chicken, then a layer of thin slices of ham and forcemeat balls, which should be about the size of a nut ; repeat this until the dish is full. Pour in some gravy made from the bones, giblets, and trimmings of the chicken. Cover the dish with flaky crust

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