Sheep's Head Pie

Ingredients

• Meat from boiled sheep’s head.
• 2 hard-boiled eggs.
• i lb. cold cooked ham.
• Salt and pepper.
• Salt and pepper.
• 1 breakfastcupful of flour.
• 1 lb. of butter.
• Some cold water.

Method

1. 1

   Chop the meat, ham, and eggs, season and mix.

2. 2

   Place in pie dish, adding some of the liquor in which the head has been boiled.

3. 3

   For the paste, chop butter among flour in pieces about the size of a walnut.

4. 4

   Mix into a stiff paste with water, roll out half a dozen times and cover.

5. 5

   Bake half an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Samaritan cookery book (1903) by E. P. Watson, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SHEEP’S HEAD PIE. Meat from boiled sheep’s head. I 2 hard-boiled eggs. i lb. cold cooked ham. | Salt and pepper. Chop the meat, ham and eggs, season and mix. Place in pie dish, adding some of the liquor in which head has been boiled. Paste. 1 breakfastcupful of flour. | \ lb. of butter. Some cold water.

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