Shepherd's Pie

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoonfuls of butter
• 2 tablespoonfuls of flour
• I pint of stock made from bones and trimmings
• 3 cups of meat, nicely trimmed
• the yolk of an ^gg
• diluted with a little milk

Method

1. 1

   Brown sliced onion in butter, add flour, cook, then add stock.

2. 2

   Mix in meat, transfer to a baking dish, top with mashed potato, brush with egg yolk and milk, and brown in the oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from 365 breakfast dishes (1901), page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Shepherd's Pie. Brown an onion, sliced in 2 tablespoonfuls of butter ; add 2 tablespoonfuls of flour and cook until frothy; add salt and pepper .and I pint of stock made from bones and trim- mings ; after boiling a few minutes add 3 cups of meat, nicely trimmed, turn into a baking dish and cover with hot mashed po" tato (reheated) ; brush over the potato with the yolk of an ^gg diluted with a little milk

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