Humble Pie

Ingredients

• i^ pounds of the fillet of veal
• i dozen oysters
• i pound of beef suet
• parsley
• thyme
• sweet maijoram
• pepper
• salt
• a teaspoonful of sherry
• the yolks of two eggs
• I cup of bread-crumbs

Method

1. 1

   Mince the veal and mix with oysters, suet, herbs, pepper, salt, sherry, and egg yolks.

2. 2

   Line a dish with paste, fill with the mixture, cover with strips of paste, and bake in a slow oven for 2 hours.

3. 3

   Serve with a brown sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from With a saucepan over the sea (1902) by Adelaide Keen, page 45. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HUMBLE PIE. (England.) This is a very old dish. Many years ago, in feudal times, the retainers, " below the salt," had a pie, so named, made of the meaner parts of the 9 129 With a Saucepan over the Sea game killed in the chase. Nowadays, the same proportions of suet, herbs, bread, etc., are cooked with veal, which results in a pie not to be despised. Mince finely i^ pounds of the fillet of veal, adding i dozen oysters, i pound of beef suet, parsley, thyme, sweet maijoram, pepper, and salt, a teaspoonful of sherry, and the yolks of two eggs, also I cup of bread-crumbs

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