Recipes Featuring Pies
- Suet Shortening for Pies
1 lb beef suet, chopped
1 lb lard
- Partan Pies
Crab meat, from hard shell crabs
Pepper
Butter
Breadcrumbs
3 Tbsp vinegar
- Mince Pies
5 pounds of a piece of beef tongue
5 pounds of good suet
5 pounds of apples
4 pounds of sugar
4 pounds of raisins
4 pounds of currants
Rind and juice of a lemon
1 ounce of ground cinnamon
1 ou - Grapes for Winter Pies
Fox-grapes or little winter grapes
Brown sugar
Molasses
- Blue Plums for Winter Pies
Small, blue plums
Brown sugar
Molasses - Fruit without Sugar for Winter Pies
Cherries, gooseberries, currants, blackberries, prunes & other small fruit
- Quail Pies
6 quails
6 slices carrot
Stalk of celery
2 slices onion
Sprig of parsley
Bit of bay leaf
1/4 teaspoon peppercorns
Flour
Salt and pepper
Sherry Wine
- Plain Pastry for Four Patty Pies
1 1/2 cups pastry flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
4 Tbsps shortening
6 Tbsps ice water
2 Tbsps butter
- Lent Pies
2 tablespoons of ground rice
1 pint of milk
5 eggs
2 bay leaves - Mince-Meat Pies
Tongue
3 pounds of fresh beef suet
3 pounds of apples
1 pound of jar raisins
4 pounds of currants
1 pound of white sugar
1/2 ounce of mace
1 1/4 ounce each of nutmeg
Cloves
Cinnamon
3 half-p