Savoury Pie

Ingredients

• Buy a nice undercut of a sirloin of beef
• some coarser meat for gravy
• a thin one of boiled bacon
• a dusting of spiced pepper
• rub it well with a shallot
• a cupful of strong gravy
• pieces of hard boiled eggs
• a good light crust

Method

1. 1

   Slice the undercut crosswise, place on each slice a slice of boiled bacon, dust with spiced pepper, roll them up, and dust again.

2. 2

   Butter a pie-dish, layer rolled beef slices, pour gravy, repeat layers until packed.

3. 3

   Garnish with hard boiled eggs and cover with crust.

4. 4

   Bake in the usual way.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Culinary jottings (1885) by A. R. Kenney-Herbert, page 264. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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