Dinner
An English pork pie
A page-cited historical dinner recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.
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- Cook two pounds of lean pork for half an hour in enough weak stock to cover it.
- Butter a deep dish and lay in some of the meat.
- Cover with a layer of hard-boiled eggs, chopped coarsely;
- season with onion juice, pepper, salt and a pinch of nutmeg.
- Stick bits of butter here and there.
- Dust with browned flour.
- stir in a lump of butter rolled in browned flour, cook one minute, add a teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce;
- bake, covered, three-quarters of an hour.
- Uncover, wash with white of egg and brown.
Historical transcription
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- 1
Cook two pounds of lean pork for half an hour in enough weak stock to cover it. Let it get cold in the liquor (which reserve for the gravy). Take out the cold meat and cut into neat dice. Butter a deep dish and lay in some of the meat. Cover with a layer of hard-boiled eggs, chopped coarsely; season with onion juice, pepper, salt and a pinch of nutmeg. Stick bits of butter here and there. Dust with browned flour.
- 2
Strain and reheat the liquor in which the meat was cooked; stir in a lump of butter rolled in browned flour, cook one minute, add a teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce; pour into the pie, and let it cool before covering with a good paste. Cut a slit in the middle of the crust; bake, covered, three-quarters of an hour. Uncover, wash with white of egg and brown.
- 3
Send around apple sauce with it.
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