Meat Pie

Ingredients

• 1 lb. of Australian mutton or beef
• half a pound of kidneys
• three-quarters of a pound of flour
• a quarter of a pound of clarified dripping
• salt (to cover thinly a threepenny piece)

Method

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   Prepare meat and kidneys, season, make a stiff paste with flour and dripping, fill a pie-dish with meat, add jelly for gravy, cover with rolled paste, seal edges, make a steam hole, and bake in a quick oven for half an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The official handbook for the National Training School for Cookery (1891) by National Training School for Cookery (London), page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MEAT PIE. Average cost of a "Meat Pie" (a quart dish) made from Australian mutton or dee/and kidneys. INGREDIENTS. s. d. \\ lb. of Australian mutton or beef o 10V h"\b. do. kidneys o 3 V I lb. of flour o ij i lb. of dripping ) 2 Pepper and salt j 1 si Time required, about three-quarters of an hour. Now we will show you how to make a Meat Pie. 1. We take a tin of Australian mutton or beef, and open it carefully. 2. We take a spoon, and carefully remove the fat from the part of the meat which is required for use. N.B. — All the fat should not be removed, as the meat not required for immediate use will keep better with the fat on the top ; but a tin of Australian meat will not keep more than two or three days after it has once been opened. 3. We take a tin of kidneys, open it carefully, and remove the fat from the part of the meat which is required for use, N.B. — The fat should be clarified, by putting it into boiling water, and when cold can then be used as dripping. 4. We take one and a half pound of the meat (mutton or beef) out of the tin, and cut it neatly into nice sized pieces, and season the pieces with pepper and salt. 5. We take half a pound of the kidneys, and cut them up in pieces. 6. We put three-quarters of a pound of flour into a basin, with salt (to cover thinly a threepenny piece). 7. We take a quarter of a pound of clarified dripping

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.