Sea Pie

Ingredients

• One pound steak
• one quarter pound suet
• one half pound flour
• one half tea-spoonful baking-powder
• one large tea-spoonful salt
• one salt-spoonful pepper
• three gills cold water
• one carrot
• one turnip
• one onion

Method

1. 1

   Cut the steak into small pieces and place in a stewpan with half the water and salt, and all the pepper.

2. 2

   Boil, then add sliced vegetables and simmer for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

3. 3

   Chop the suet finely, mix with flour, remaining salt, and baking powder, and moisten with remaining water.

4. 4

   Knead, cut into balls, and place on top of the stew for the last 30 minutes of cooking.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 176. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SEA PIE. 273 MEATS. Hot Pot. — One pound cold cooked meat or one pound lean mutton, two pounds potatoes, one large onion, one half pint cold water, half an. ounce dripping, half a table-spoonful salt, one half tea-spoonful pepper, one table-spoonful flour. Soak over night in a small basin of boiling water the onion, then cut it in thin slices. Pare the potatoes very thinly, place them in a sauce-pan, cover them with cold water, and allow the water to boil. While the water is coming to the boiling-point, place on a plate the flour, pepper, and salt. Mix them well together. Cut in small pieces either the mutton • or cold meat. Roll each piece in the seasoned flour. Take the potatoes from the boiling water, dry them in a towel, and slice thinly about hah*. Place a layer of the slices in a pie-dish, then a layer of the meat, then a little of the onion, and so on, until all is used up. Cut the remainder of the potatoes in half. Place them on the top, with the round sides uppermost. Melt the dripping in a cup or tin, and with a feather brush the potatoes over. Place the pie-dish in a moderate oven, and bake half an hour. If mutton has been used cook one hour. Sea Pie. — One pound steak, one quarter pound suet, one half pound flour, one half tea-spoonful baking-powder, one large tea-spoonful salt, one salt-spoonful pepper, three gills cold water, one carrot, one turnip, one onion

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