Paste for a GOOSE PIE

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (4)
for the paste
Instructions (7)
  1. put six pounds of fresh butter, and one pound of rendered beef suet in a kettle of water
  2. boil it two or three minutes
  3. pour it boiling hot upon your flour
  4. work it well into a pretty stiff paste
  5. pull it in lumps to cool
  6. raise your pye
  7. bake it
Original Text
To make Paste for a GOOSE PIE. TAKE eighteen pounds of fine flour, put six pounds of fresh butter, and one pound of ren- dered beef suet in a kettle of water, boil it two or three minutes, then pour it boiling hot upon your flour, work it well into a pretty stiff paste, pull it in lumps to cool, and raise your pye, bake it
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