Mrs Beetons Poultry and Game Revisited
Pigeon Pie
(Epsom Grand-Stand Recipe)
680g (1½lb) Rump Steak
2-3 Pigeons
Very Good Puff Paste or Medium Puff Paste
4 Eggs
3 Slices Ham
50g (2oz) Butter
Salt and Pepper, to taste
Cut the steak into pieces about 7.5 cm (3 inch) square and with it line the bottom of a pie dish, seasoning it well with salt and pepper.
Clean the pigeons, rub with salt and pepper inside and out.
Put rather more than 15g (½oz) of butter into the body of each.
Lay them on the steak, with a piece of ham on each pigeon.
Add the yolks of 4 eggs and half fill the dish with stock.
Lace a border of puff pastry round the edge of the dish.
Cover with pastry and ornament in any way that may be preferred.
Clean three of the feet and place them in a hole made in the crust at the top, (this shows what kind of pie it is).
Glaze the crust with the yolk of an egg.
Bake it in a well heated oven for about 75 minutes.
If liked, a seasoning of ground mace may be added.
Time: 75 minutes, or rather less.
Sufficient for 5 or 6 persons. Seasonable at any time.
PIGEON PIE
(Epsom Grand-Stand Recipe)
975. INGREDIENTS - 1-1/2 lb. of rump-steak, 2 or 3 pigeons, 3 slices of ham, pepper and salt to taste, 2 oz. of butter, 4 eggs, puff crust.
Mode - Cut the steak into pieces about 3 inches square, and with it line the bottom of a pie-dish, seasoning it well with pepper and salt. Clean the pigeons, rub them with pepper and salt inside and out, and put into the body of each rather more than 1/2 oz. of butter; lay them on the steak, and a piece of ham on each pigeon. Add the yolks of 4 eggs, and half fill the dish with stock; place a border of puff paste round the edge of the dish, put on the cover, and ornament it in any way that may be preferred. Clean three of the feet, and place them in a hole made in the crust at the top: this shows what kind of pie it is. Glaze the crust, that is to say, brush it over with the yolk of an egg, and bake it in a well-heated oven for about 1-1/4 hour. When liked, a seasoning of pounded mace may be added.
Time - 1-1/4 hour, or rather less.
Average cost, 5s. 3d.
Sufficient for 5 or 6 persons.
Seasonable at any time.
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