Pork or Other Meat Pie

Ingredients

• 14 lb. uncooked pork or other meat
• half.a teacupful of water
• 14 lb. well-boiled rice
• slices of tomato
• the gravy that has stewed from the meat
• pastry

Method

1. 1

   Cut up the uncooked meat and stew with half a teacupful of water in the oven or in a double saucepan.

2. 2

   When tender, place in the centre of a pie dish with a border of well-cooked rice round the meat and lay over it slices of tomato, adding the gravy that has stewed from the meat.

3. 3

   Cover with pastry, making a hole in the top, and bake.

4. 4

   When nearly cold, pour in through the hole sufficient warm aspic jelly to fill the dish.

5. 5

   Stand in a cool place to set until required for the table.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Chivers selected recipes (1930) by Ltd Chivers & Sons, page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PORK OR OTHER MEAT PIE 14 lb. uncooked pork or other meat Chivers’ Aspic Jelly 14 lb. well-boiled rice Cut up the uncooked meat and stew with half.a teacupful of water in the oven or ina double saucepan. When tender, place in the centre of a pie dish with a border of well-cooked rice round the meat and lay over it slices of tomato, adding the gravy that has stewed from the meat. Cover with pastry

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