Cottage Pie

Ingredients

• 2 lbs. of potatoes
• scraps of meat
• 1 onion
• 1.5 oz. of butter
• pepper to taste
• salt to taste
• 4 glass of milk

Method

1. 1

   Boil and mash the potatoes.

2. 2

   Boil milk and butter, then mix with the mashed potatoes.

3. 3

   Layer meat and onion in a pie dish, add seasoning, cover with potatoes, and bake for half an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ideal cook book (1899) by Anne Clarke, page 109. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cottage Pie—Ingredients—2 Ibs. of potatoes, scraps of “Eola : meat, I onion, 1% oz. of butter, pepper and salt to taste, 4aglass of milk. : ae Boil and mash potatoes (or if there are any cold ones at — eee hand, they will do as well) ; put the milk and butter on the fire — ~ to boil, and when boiling pour upon the mashed potatoes and _-- - mix to a paste ; place the meat in a pie dish with a little fatin - layers, mince the onion and sprinkle each layer with it, also pepper and salt; half fili the dish with water or gravy and cover with the potatoes, smoothing neatly and marking with a fork into a pattern ; bake half an hour. 663. Pork Pie—Ingredients—For paste, % Ib. of lard, %4 oz. of butter, i 1 Ib. of flour. ¢ Make a paste thus :—Melt the lard and butter in hot milk : (not boiling) ; when it rises to the top of the stewpan skim it Be off, and mix it warm with the flour; raise the crust, when sufficiently kneaded, on a round block of wood about four inches in circumference and six inches in height. Take lean eee pork, cut it up in small square pieces, season with pepper and ~~ salt, fill the pie, put on a lid of paste, and decorate with paste ornaments, cut out with tin cutters. 2 Ear ee ee ora ee te fe oh 664. Eel Pie-—Ingredients—Eels, salt, pepper and nutmeg, puff paste, 1 onion

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.