Ox-Cheek Pie

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
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The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (6)
Instructions (9)
  1. First bake your ox-cheeks as at other times, but not too much, put in the oven over night, and then it will be ready the next day to make fine puff-paste crust.
  2. Let your side and top-crust be thick.
  3. If your dish be deep to hold a good deal of gravy, cover your dish with crust.
  4. Cut off all the fleshy kernels and fat of the head, with the palate cut in pieces.
  5. Cut the meat into little pieces as you do for a hash.
  6. Lay in the meat.
  7. Take an ounce of truffles and morels and throw them over the meat.
  8. Add the yolks of six eggs boiled hard.
  9. Add a gill of pickled mushrooms, or fresh ones are better.
Original Text
First bake your ox-cheeks as at other times, but not too much, put in the oven over night, and then it will be ready the next day to make fine puff-paste crust, and let your side and top-crust be thick; if your dish be deep to hold a good deal of gravy, cover your dish with crust, then cut off all the fleshy kernels and fat of the head, with the palate cut in pieces, cut the meat into little pieces as you do for a hash, lay in the meat, take an ounce of truffles and morels and throw them over the meat, the yolks of six eggs boiled hard, a gill of pickled mushrooms, or fresh ones are better.
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