Game Pie

Ingredients

• a pound of flour
• half a pound of butter
• a teaspoonful of salt
• two eggs beaten
• a good teaspoonful of mixed savoury herbs
• half one of black pepper
• mustard
• mace
• a little salt
• a few bread-crumbs
• two yolks of eggs
• a little strong gravy
• a little dissolved gelatine

Method

1. 1

   Rub flour and butter together with salt, then mix with beaten eggs and water to form a paste.

2. 2

   Roll out and bake.

3. 3

   Prepare forcemeat by frying liver and bacon, then chop and mix with herbs, spices, and yolks.

4. 4

   Line pie with bacon, add forcemeat and meat, fill gaps with forcemeat, top with bacon, cover with crust, brush with egg, and bake.

5. 5

   Pour gravy and gelatine through a hole after baking.

6. 6

   Serve hot or cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The profession of cookery, from a French point of view (1894) by Lucy H. Yates, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a pound of flour, half a pound of butter is lightly rubbed and a teaspoonful of salt ; this is made into a smooth paste with two eggs beaten and a small quantity of water. The paste should be lightly rolled out two or three times, then baked as soon as possible. A very fair imitation of game pie may be made with but little expense if care be given to the preparation of the following forcemeat. Half a pound of calf's liver and the same quantity of fat bacon should be fried till cooked through, then chopped small and pounded finely in a mortar. When thoroughly reduced, add a good teaspoonful of mixed savoury herbs, half one of black pepper, mustard and mace, and a little salt and a few bread-crumbs ; mix smoothly with two yolks of eggs. Line the bottom crust of the pie with slices of fat bacon, then a good layer of forcemeat, and fill up with joints of fowls or ducks, rabbits, or anything most available at the time. It is not at all necessary that it should be game. If all bones which it is possible to remove are taken out, the pie will be so much the better. Fill up all spaces with forcemeat, lay a little 196 CHOICE SUPPER DISHES. more bacon at the top, then put on the top crust, brush over with beaten egg and bake. A little strong gravy well seasoned and a little dissolved gelatine

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