Name: To Make a Game or French Pie
Ingredients: 1 ounce lard; 1 pint water; as much flour as needed

To Make a Game or French Pie

Ingredients

1 ounce lard
1 pint water
as much flour as needed

Directions

In a pot, bring 1 pint of water to a boil.
Add 1 ounce of lard to the boiling water.
Gradually mix in flour until a dough forms.
Roll out the dough and use it to line a pie dish.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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To Make a Game or French Pie