Meat Pie

Ingredients

• Cut cold meat in inch squares
• Cut raw potatoes into small pieces
• fill the dish one-fourth full of gravy
• Crust: One pint flour, sifted
• one-half teaspoonful salt
• one heaping teaspoonful baking-powder
• small tablespoonful butter

Method

1. 1

   Cut cold meat in inch squares.

2. 2

   Cut raw potatoes into small pieces.

3. 3

   Put the meat and potatoes in a good-sized baking-dish and fill the dish one-fourth full of gravy.

4. 4

   Season with salt and pepper.

5. 5

   For the crust: Mix 1 pint flour, sifted, 0.5 teaspoonful salt, 1 heaping teaspoonful baking-powder, small tablespoonful butter, and milk to make a soft dough.

6. 6

   Mix in the order given, then sift all together.

7. 7

   Rub in the butter with the tips of the fingers until there are no large lumps.

8. 8

   Mix in the milk, using a knife.

9. 9

   When stiff enough to be handled, turn out on a well-floured board, roll out thick and put on the top of the meat.

10. 10

    Wet the edges of the dish, to make the pastry stick.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A bill of fare for every day in the year ... (1892) by Beatrice Wilde Bryant, page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Meat Pie ; Onions, boiled in milk ; Sweet Potatoes- Bread and Butter • Rice Pudding. 3upper. — Fried Sweet Potatoes; Bread and Butter; Stewed Prunelles; Plum Cake ; Tea. Meat Pie. — Cut cold meat in inch squares. Cut raw pota- toes into small pieces. Put the meat and potatoes in a good- sized baking-dish and fill the dish one-fourth full of gravy. Sea- son with salt and pepper. Ckust . — One pint flour, sifted, one- half teaspoonful salt, one heaping teaspoonful baking-powder, small tablespoonful butter

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