Pigeon Pie (al'Anglaise)

Ingredients

• two or more freshly-killed, young pigeons
• one pound of rump steak
• an ounce of butter
• a cupful of nicely-seasoned stock
• a small bay-leaf
• a dessert-spoonful of gelatine
• the yolk of a hard-boiled egg
• pepper
• salt
• grated nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Divide pigeons in half, remove feet, and turn legs inside.

2. 2

   Fill each half with forcemeat of livers, parsley, pepper, salt, and butter.

3. 3

   Grease a pie-dish, line with parsley, add seasoned steak, place pigeons breast down, add yolk of egg, season, add butter, bay leaf, and stock.

4. 4

   Cover with crust, brush with egg yolk, bake in a moderate oven for about an hour and a half.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1199. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pigeon Pie (al'Anglaise). — Take two or more freshly -killed, yoimg pigeons. Di-vide in two lengthwise, cut off their feet at the first joint, and turn their legs inside close to the pinions. Put inside each half bird a little forcemeat made of the fivers finely minced, -with a little parsley, pepper, salt, and butter. Grease the edges of a pie-dish -with a little lard or butter, and line them with strips of parsley a quarter of an inch thick. Place at the bottom of the dish one pound of rump steak cut into neat pieces, and seasoned with pepper and salt. Lay the pigeons. PIG (563) PIG upon these, breast downwards, and put the yolk of a hard-boiled egg between each two half pigeons. Sprinkle some pepper and salt and a smaU quantity of grated nutmeg over the pigeons, put hero and there upon them an ounce of butter broken into small pieces, lay on the top a small bay-leaf, and pour over the birds a cupful of nicely-seasoned stock suf- ficiently strong to form a jelly when cold. If there is any doubt about this, a dessert-spoonful of gelatine

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