Kidney Pie

Ingredients

• ten tinned Kidneys
• 1 table-spoonful of finely-chopped onions
• 1 teaspoonful of powdered cloves
• 1 teaspoonful of nutmeg
• salt and pepper to taste
• thin slices of bacon
• three or four sliced hard-boiled eggs
• a short paste cover

Method

1. 1

   Heat jelly with onions, cloves, nutmeg, salt, and pepper.

2. 2

   Place kidneys in a pie-dish, cover with bacon and eggs, pour gravy, and cover with paste.

3. 3

   Bake for 45 minutes and serve hot or cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 191. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 table-spoonful of finely-chopped onions, and J saltspoonful of powdered mace ; season to taste with salt and pepper, stand the stewpan at the side of the fire, and let the contents stew gently. Lino a well-buttered pudding- basin with a suet crust, put a cloth over, and tie it round the rim of the basin with string ; roll out a round of the crust to fit the top of the basin, and lay it on the cloth, the ends of which bring up and tie over it. Put the basin into a saucepan of boiling water, and boil for half-an-hour. At the end of that time take the cloth off the basin, put in the stowed Kidneys and oysters, fix the top on the pudding, tie the cloth over again, and boil for five minutes, then turn it out of the basin on to a hot dish, and serve. Kidney Patties. — Prepare a light lard crust. Dredge flour over a paste-board, put the dough on it and roll out very thin. Divide the paste into pieces 3in. square, place a tinned Kidney on each of the pieces of paste, season them with salt and pepper and a small quantity of pounded mace, then bring the corners of the paste up so as to entirely envelop the Kidney, moisten the edges slightly with water, and press them together with the fingers. Put a good-sized lump of fat in a stewpan, place it over the fire until beginning to boil, then put in the patties, and turn them about in the fat until of a golden brown. When fried, take the patties out of the fat with a slice, and put them on a piece of paper to drain thoroughly. Spread a folded napkin or a fancy dish-paper over a hot dish, arrange the patties on it, and serve. Kidney Pie. — Scrape the jelly off ten tinned Kidneys, and put it into a small stewpan with 1 table-spoonful of finely- chopped onions, teaspoonful each of powdered cloves and nutmeg, and salt and pepper to taste ; and place over the For details respecting Culinary Processes, Kidneys — continued. fire until hot. Put the Kidneys into a pie-dish, cover with thin slices of bacon and three or four sliced hard-boiled eggs on the top. Pour the gravy into the dish, put a short paste cover

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