Sea Pie (another way)

Ingredients

• Take some uncooked meat cut in slices
• Peel some onions
• and swedes (or turnips, if preferred to swedes)
• and sufficient water for them to stew
• Peel some potatoes
• cover it over with paste made of flour, dripping, lard, butter, or suet, and a little water

Method

1. 1

   Put the meat in a saucepan with the onions and swedes, add sufficient water to stew.

2. 2

   Place a steamer or plate on top, add the potatoes on the plate, and cover with paste.

3. 3

   The steam from the meat will cook the potatoes.

4. 4

   When all is sufficiently done, turn it out of the saucepan, and eat the pie very hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1748. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sea Pie (another way). — Take some un- cooked meat cut in slices, and put it in a sauce- pan ; i^eel some onions and swedes (or turnips, if preferred to swedes), cut them in slices, and put them in with the meat, and sufficient water for them to stew ; then place a steamer or a plate on the top. Peel some potatoes, and place them on the plate, and then cover them over with paste made of flour, dripjiing, lard, butter, or suet, and a Little wat

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