Sea Pie

Ingredients

• 1 lb. of any scraps of beef, mutton, or pork
• 4 onions
• 3 lbs. of potatoes
• a little celery
• a little powdered thyme
• 1 lb. or more of suet crust

Method

1. 1

   Cut the meat up small and slice up the vegetables.

2. 2

   Put them into a saucepan and cover with water; add a little salt and pepper.

3. 3

   Simmer for half an hour or longer if the meat is very tough, and then cover with a suet crust, which has been rolled to the size of the saucepan; cook for an hour and a half longer.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery for busy lives and small incomes (1890) by Mary Harrison, page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sea Pie Required. — 1 lb. of any scraps of beef, mutton, or pork, 4 onions, 3 lbs. of potatoes, a little celery (if possible), a little powdered thyme (if tomatoes are cheap, two or three of those will give a nice flavour), 1 lb. or more of suet crust

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