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A Partridge Pie

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. a pound of butter
  2. Salt
  3. Cut
  4. White pepper

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Take two or three partridges, dress them, and either take the large bones out, or cut them in two, season them well with white pepper and salt;
  2. put a pound of butter in the inside, make a good crust, and have a little gravy to put in when it comes out of the oven, if you eat it hot;
  3. if cold, it is not necessary.
  4. An hour will bake it.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
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Credit

From The family friend, and young woman's companion, or, Housekeeper's instructor (1814), printed page 60, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_don-caster-recipes_MSG1230-1-2-19719

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.