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A Plain Goose Pie

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Forcemeat
  2. a pound of butter
  3. Cut

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. Quarter and season a goose, lay it in a raised crust, cut half a pound of butter in small pieces, and strew it on the top.
  2. Put on the lid, and bake it in a moderate oven.
  3. Bone a goose and a fowl, well season them, put forcemeat into the fowl, and put the fowl into the goose.
  4. Lay them in a raised crust, and fill the corners with forcemeat.
  5. Put half a pound of butter on the top, cut it into pieces ;
  6. cover, send it to the oven, and let it be well baked.
  7. It may be eaten either hot or cold.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
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Credit

From The complete economical cook, and frugal housewife (1843), printed page 302, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21530853

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.