571. Lark Pie

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
Source
The Modern Housewife
Time
Cook: 60 min Total: 60 min
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
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Ingredients (11)
pie base
filling
crust
Instructions (8)
  1. Cover the bottom of a pie-dish with thin slices of beef and fat bacon
  2. lay ten or twelve larks previously rolled in flour, stuffed as above, season with a teaspoonful of salt, a quarter ditto of pepper, one of chopped parsley, and one of chopped eschalots
  3. lay a bay-leaf over
  4. add a gill of broth
  5. cover with three quarters of a pound of half puff paste
  6. bake one hour in a moderate oven
  7. shake well to make the gravy in the pie form a kind of sauce
  8. serve quite hot
Original Text
571. Lark Pie.—Cover the bottom of a pie-dish with thin slices of beef and fat bacon, over which lay ten or twelve larks previously rolled in flour, stuffed as above, season with a teaspoonful of salt, a quarter ditto of pepper, one of chopped parsley, and one of chopped eschalots, lay a bay-leaf over, add a gill of broth, and cover with three quarters of a pound of half puff paste, bake one hour in a moderate oven, shake well to make the gravy in the pie form a kind of sauce, and serve quite hot.
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