Snipe Pie

Ingredients

• three snipe
• thin slices of fat bacon
• aromatic herbs
• salt and pepper
• juice of a lemon
• melted clarified butter
• puff paste

Method

1. 1

   Prepare snipe by picking, singeing, and cutting into pieces.

2. 2

   Layer in a pie-dish with bacon, season, add lemon juice and butter.

3. 3

   Cover with puff paste and bake for an hour and a half.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical household cookery (1891) by E. Duret, page 153. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SNIPE PIEL Pick and singe three snipe as previously described. Cut off the heads, wings, and legs ; cut the birds into fours ; remove the gizzards, but leave the trail; then cover the lining of a pie-dish with thin slices of fat bacon ; place the pieces of snipe in close layers on these slices ; season well with aromatic herbs, salt, and pepper ; squeeze in the juice of a lemon, pour a sufficient quantity of melted clarified butter into the dish to cover the birds, and put another layer of fat bacon on the top. Cover the dish with pu£f paste (see No. 318). Bury the feet of the birds on the top of the paste in a symmetrical form. Bake the pie in a modei-ately-heated oven for one hour and a half, and keep it in a cool place till wanted. Note, — ^Woodcock, widgeon, and teal can be made into a similar pie. 699. GAME PIE IN MOULD. For pies in moulds a short paste (No. 790) is substituted for puff paste, and this should be made first. Skin and draw a hare ; save the blood, remove the two fillets from each side of the spine, and cut these into strips half an inch thick and put them aside on a plate ; bone the remainder of the hare ; put the bones, head, and neck into a stewpan, after having split the two latter in halves; pare off one pound of cushion of veal from skin, gristle, and sinew ; put the trimmings in the stewpan with the bones of hare; remove also the rind of one pound of fat bacon ; put this PRACTICAL HOUSEHOLD COOKERY. 349 aside, add the rind to the stewpan, together with a boned ealfs foot cut in pieces, a "bouquet garni," one onion with four cloves stuck in it, and moisten with three pints of stock ; season with salt and pepper

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