Star-gazing Pie

Ingredients

• Mackerel or herrings
• slices of fat bacon
• stale bread
• a little parsley
• pepper and salt

Method

1. 1

   Open the fish and clean them, remove the backbone; season with pepper and salt and roll each one up.

2. 2

   Crumble up the bread and put some at the bottom of a pie dish, cover with rolls of fish, sprinkle with parsley, and cover with slices of bacon.

3. 3

   Alternate layers of bread crumbs, fish, and bacon until the dish is full, pour in some stock or water, cover with a pie crust, and bake for about one hour and a half.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery for busy lives and small incomes (1890) by Mary Harrison, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Star-gazing Pie — A Cornish and Devonshire Dish Ingredients. — Mackerel or herrings, slices of fat bacon, stale bread, a little parsley, pepper and salt

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