Steak and Kidney Pie

Ingredients

• 2 lbs. steak
• \ lb. bacon
• 1 lb. kidney
• water
• salt
• pepper
• 1 lb. flour
• pinch of salt
• 12 ozs. butter
• cold water

Method

1. 1

   Prepare the steak and kidney as for Steak and Kidney Pudding, dip each piece in flour, and fill a pie dish, raising the meat a little higher in the centre than at the sides, season with pepper and salt, half fill the dish with water, and cover with the following paste.

2. 2

   Break the butter amongst the flour into small pieces, mix in the salt, and mix with cold water to a firm paste and roll out four times.

3. 3

   Put a border of paste round the wet edge of the pie dish, moisten it, and lay the cover over very slack, to allow for shrinkage in the oven.

4. 4

   Cut the paste even with the edge of the dish all round.

5. 5

   Brush over with egg, ornament with paste leaves, ventilate in the centre, and bake in a hot oven one hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Sea Cookery (1911) by Richard Bond, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

STEAK AND KIDNEY PIE. 2 lbs. steak \ lb. bacon 1 lb. kidney water salt and pepper Prepare the steak and kidney as for Steak and Kidney Pudding, dip each piece in flour, and fill a pie dish, raising the meat a little 78 highei in the centre than at the sides, season with pepper and salt half fill the dish with water, and cover with the following paste 1 lb. flour | pinch of salt 12 ozs. butter j cold water

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