494. Mutton pie

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849

Source: The Modern Housewife
Status: success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (7)

the chumps of three loins of mutton ↝ Mutton, cooked, roasted (Navajo) [American Indian/Alaska Native Foods]
chopped parsley ↝ Parsley, raw [Not included in a food category]
eschalots
pepper ↝ Spices, pepper, black [Spices and Herbs]
salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]
slices of raw potatoes ↝ Potatoes, raw, skin [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
paste ↝ Guava paste [Jams, syrups, toppings]

Instructions (9)

Cut the meat from the chumps of three loins of mutton into moderately thin slices.
Put a layer of the mutton slices at the bottom of the pie dish.
Season the mutton layer well with chopped parsley, eschalots, pepper, and salt.
Add a layer of slices of raw potatoes.
Add another layer of mutton, seasoning as before.
Continue layering mutton and potatoes, seasoning each mutton layer, until the dish is full.
Form the top layer into a dome shape, finishing with mutton.
Cover the pie with paste.
Bake as directed for rumpsteak pie.

Original Text

494. Mutton pie.—Procure the chumps of three loins of mutton, from which cut the meat in moderately thin slices, put a layer at the bottom of the dish, which season well with chopped parsley, eschalots, pepper, and salt; then put a layer of slices of raw potatoes, and again a layer of mutton, seasoning as before, proceeding thus to the top, which form in a dome, finishing with mutton, cover with paste, and bake as directed for rumpsteak pie.

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