Chicken Pie

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (25)
Crust
Filling
Instructions (22)
  1. Make a puff-paste crust.
  2. Cut the chickens to pieces.
  3. Season the chickens with pepper and salt, and a little beaten mace.
  4. Make a force-meat: Beat half a pound of veal, half a pound of suet, and as many crumbs of bread as veal and suet quite fine in a marble mortar.
  5. Season the force-meat with a little pepper and salt, an anchovy with the liquor, cut another anchovy in pieces, a little lemon-peel cut very fine and shred small, and a very little thyme.
  6. Mix all the force-meat ingredients together with the yolk of an egg.
  7. Make some of the force-meat into round balls (about twelve).
  8. Lay the rest of the force-meat round the side of the dish.
  9. Lay one chicken over the bottom of the dish.
  10. Cut two sweetbreads into five or six pieces and lay them all over the chicken.
  11. Season the sweetbreads with pepper and salt.
  12. Strew over them half an ounce of truffles and morels.
  13. Add two or three artichoke-bottoms cut to pieces.
  14. Add a few cocks-combs, if you have them.
  15. Add a palate boiled tender and cut to pieces.
  16. Lay on the other part of the chicken.
  17. Put half a pint of water in the pie.
  18. Cover the pie.
  19. Bake it well.
  20. When it comes out of the oven, fill it with good gravy.
  21. Lay on the crust.
  22. Send it to table.
Original Text
MAKE a puff-paste crust, take two young chickens, cut them to pieces, season them with pepper and salt, a little beaten mace, lay a force-meat made thus round the side of the dish: Take half a pound of veal, half a pound of suet, beat them quite fine in a marble mortar, with as many crumbs of bread; season it with a little pepper and salt, an anchovy with the liquor, cut an anchovy in pieces, a little lemon-peel cut very fine and shred small, a very little thyme; mix all together with the yolk of an egg, make some into round balls about twelve, the rest lay round the dish. Lay in one chicken over the bottom of the dish, take two sweetbreads, cut them into five or six pieces, lay them all over, season them with pepper and salt, strew over them half an ounce of truffles and morels, two or three artichoke-bottoms cut to pieces, a few cocks-combs, if you have them, a palate boiled tender and cut to pieces; then lay on the other part of the chicken, put half a pint of water in, and cover the pye. Bake it well, and when it comes out of the oven, fill it with good gravy, lay on the crust, and send it to table.
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