English Pie

Ingredients

• Take any cold meat
• half an onion
• pepper
• salt
• mustard
• cut fine a pepper pod
• two eggs well beaten
• very little nutmeg
• one table-spoonful of butter
• the juice and rind of one lemon

Method

1. 1

   Mince the cold meat like sausage, chop the onion, and mix with pepper, salt, mustard, chopped pepper pod, beaten eggs, nutmeg, and lemon juice and rind.

2. 2

   Put into a baking-pan.

3. 3

   Boil the bones of the meat in water for half an hour, cover the top with bread crumbs and sliced hard-boiled eggs, pour over the boiled water, and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ENGLISH PIE. Take any cold meat, mince fine like sausage; chop half an onion fine; pepper, salt, mustard; cut fine a pepper pod; two eggs well beaten; very little nutmeg, the juice and rind of one lemon, one table-spoonful of butter

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