Meat
English Pork Pie
- Cook
- 20 minutes
- Servings
- 8
Ingredients
- 2 pounds lean pork
- 4 hard-cooked eggs (sliced)
- 2 small onions
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Flour to thicken
- Pastry
Instructions
- Stew pork slowly for forty minutes in salted water or stock to cover. Let cool in liquid, then take out and cut in cubes. Put meat in deep baking dish and cover with hard-cooked eggs. Strain liquor, add onions, salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Thicken with flour, if liked (in proportion of one tablespoon to one cup liquid), and pour into pie. Cover with plain pastry rolled rather thick, perforate for escape of steam and bake in moderately hot oven until brown. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 375 degrees.