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Modern Cookery

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Modern Cookery

Ingredients

Directions

  1. If desired, flavor the forcemeat with minced shallots.

  2. Roll the forcemeat thin and lay it between the cutlets.

  3. Add the mutton kidneys to enrich the gravy.

  4. Pour in a little cold water.

  5. Roll the pastry to ½ inch thick, or thicker if the crust is short.

  6. Close the pie securely and trim the edges evenly with the dish.

  7. Decorate the pie as desired and make a hole in the center.

  8. Bake for 1.5 to 2 hours.

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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