Curry Pie

Ingredients

• Cut the meat up small
• a dessertspoonful of curry-powder
• fry some onions brown
• good gravy
• mashed potato

Method

1. 1

   Cut the meat up small, fry some onions brown and the meat with them.

2. 2

   Put meat and onions in a pie-dish, and half fill the dish with good gravy in which you have smoothly mixed a dessertspoonful of curry-powder.

3. 3

   Cover all over, but not too thickly, with mashed potato mixed with a little of the curry gravy, and bake the pie a nice brown.

4. 4

   Some boiled rice may be mixed with the meat and onions if liked.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CURRY PIE. BURNT CREAM April They are the most practical and safe, being warmed with hot water. Then there is the purchase of eggs, and the cost of either oil or gas for the lamps. I estimate the latter about 9<^. a week. “ The feeding of small chicks costs very little, and the sooner they can be sold after hatching the more profitable it is.” April 27. — Curry Pie. — I see that all the recipes in Hilda! s Where is it are for curry to be served with boiled rice ; but a very nice way is to make a curry pie, for which Mrs. Hill’s recipe is excellent. Cut the meat up small, fry some onions brown and the meat with them, put meat and onions in a pie-dish, and half fill the dish with good gravy in which you have smoothly mixed a dessertspoonful of curry-powder. Cover all over, but not too thickly, with mashed potato

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