A Great Pye

Name: A Great Pye
Prep time: 1 h 50 min
Cook time: 1 h 50 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 454 grams minced beef; 118 milliliters beef stock; 1 Tbsp rice flour or corn flour; 28 grams currants; 28 grams stone cooking dates, chopped; 1 egg white, beaten until liquid; 3 hard boiled egg yolks, crumbled; 1 of Spice mixture made teaspoon each ground cinnamon and mace and a pinch ground cloves; 454 grams boned breast of chicken, pigeon or wild duck and/or saddle of hare or rabbit; 454 grams short crust pastry; 57 grams stoned prunes, soaked and drained; 8 servings Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 Tbsps shredded suet

A Great Pye might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe serves 8. Watching your figure? This dairy free recipe has 686 calories, 28g of protein, and 22g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 18% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes. If you have suet, beef stock, currants, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the ground mace you could follow this main course with the Ginger Cookies as a dessert.

Instructions

Line a 9-inch pie plate with half of the pastry.

Brush the inside with some of the egg white. Skin the pieces of the breast and other meat if necessary and parboil them gently in salted water for 10 to 15 minutes.

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Egg Whites

Water

Meat

Drain and cool.

In a mixing bowl, combine the minced beef, suet, salt and pepper, the egg yolks, and half of the spice mixture.

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Salt And Pepper

Ground Beef

Egg Yolk

Suet

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Mixing Bowl

Add the rest of the spices to the dried fruit in another bowl. Slice the parboiled meat.

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Dried Fruit

Spices

Meat

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Bowl

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.

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Oven

Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of the beef stock to the rice flour or corn flour in small saucepan and cream them together. Stir in the remaining stock and stir over gentle heat until thickened.

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Beef Stock

Corn Flour

Rice Flour

Cream

Stock

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Sauce Pan

Remove from the heat and set aside. Cover the bottom of the lined pastry pan with half of the minced mixture. Arrange the sliced meat in a layer over the top. Scatter the chopped spiced fruit over it and cover the remaining minced meat.

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Ground Beef

Fruit

Meat

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Frying Pan

Pour the thickened stock over the top.

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Stock

Roll out the remaining pastry into a round to make a lid for the pie.

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Roll

Brush the rim of the case with a little more egg white and cover with the lid. Press the edges to seal, and make escape slits for steam. Decorate with the pastry trimmings and glaze with the egg white.

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Egg Whites

Glaze