737. MUTTON PIE, A L'ANGLAISE.
PROCURE a neck of mutton, remove the scrag and the spine-bone,
shorten the ribs to about three inches, and use these trimmings to
make some stock or gravy for the pie. Next cut the mutton into neat
chops, pare off the superfluous fat, season them with pepper and salt,
and place them in the dish in circular order, one resting upon another
in the same way as cutlets are dished up: fill the centre with small
new potatoes, or old ones turned into round balls; boil the mutton
stock down to the quantity required to nearly fill up the dish, season
with pepper and salt, cover with puff-paste, bake the pie an hour
and a half, and send to table.