Game Pie

Ingredients

• 1 lb. Flour
• 1/2 lb. Butter
• 1/2 pint Water
• a pinch of Salt
• 1 Egg
• 1 Partridge or small Pheasant
• 1/4 lb. lean Veal, minced
• 1/4 lb. Pork, minced
• season with Allspice, Pepper and Salt

Method

1. 1

   Boil butter and water until dissolved, pour over flour to form a stiff paste.

2. 2

   Cut game into small joints, fill pie with layers of minced meat and game, brush with egg, and bake for 1 hour.

3. 3

   Start with a hot oven, then lower gas for the last hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Gas cookery (1885) by Helen Edden, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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