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Two and a half noms pies.
Jan. 13th, 2010 06:51 pmWell I tried to make the Elizabethan beef pies out of All the Kings Cooks.
Take beef, lard (or suet if you have it) dried fruit, vinegar, safron, pepper and salt and mince it all tog...ether.
Next we make the dough. Take beef stock (75ml) and bring it to the boil with 75g of butter then pour into flour (225g) and add an egg yolk and make into a dough. (I added some crushed dry sage leaves too.) Kneed until smooth.
Take 3/8th of the dough an form round a jam jar to make the raise pie case. Cover in grease proof paper and tie round the top. Remove from the form and fill with the beef mixture. Take 1/8th of the mixture to make the lid and use the egg white to join it together. Repeat.
Bake for 15 minutes at 225C and then at 160 for two hours.
They came out looking like this. ( click here to see )They where very tasty both hot and cold but something about the pastry wasn't quite right it was a bit dry and hard. I think it might have needed a bit more butter. This is why its rates a half nom deduction.
The cold one made an excellent dinner this evening.
Take beef, lard (or suet if you have it) dried fruit, vinegar, safron, pepper and salt and mince it all tog...ether.
Next we make the dough. Take beef stock (75ml) and bring it to the boil with 75g of butter then pour into flour (225g) and add an egg yolk and make into a dough. (I added some crushed dry sage leaves too.) Kneed until smooth.
Take 3/8th of the dough an form round a jam jar to make the raise pie case. Cover in grease proof paper and tie round the top. Remove from the form and fill with the beef mixture. Take 1/8th of the mixture to make the lid and use the egg white to join it together. Repeat.
Bake for 15 minutes at 225C and then at 160 for two hours.
They came out looking like this. ( click here to see )They where very tasty both hot and cold but something about the pastry wasn't quite right it was a bit dry and hard. I think it might have needed a bit more butter. This is why its rates a half nom deduction.
The cold one made an excellent dinner this evening.
