Name: Beefsteak Pie
Ingredients: rump steaks; pepper; coarse sea salt; water; pie crust

Beefsteak Pie

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

Beat the rump steaks with a rolling pin.
Season the steaks with pepper and coarse sea salt to taste.

Assemble and bake

Make a pie crust and lay the seasoned steaks in the dish.
Pour in enough water to half fill the dish.
Cover with the crust and bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until well baked.

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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What each ingredient does

Rump steaks: Provide the meat that becomes tender and flavourful as it cooks in the pie.
Pie crust: Encloses the filling and browns in the oven to form the pie's top layer.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.