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Potato Pie

From Cookery for the lancashire operatives (1863).

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A historical recipe

Cookery for the lancashire operatives, by Englishman (1863).

United Kingdom

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

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards. Printed in United Kingdom: that says where the book was made, not where the dish comes from.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. two pounds of beef steak

Method

  1. Take one or two pounds of beef steak, lay at the bottom of dish, season with pepper and salt, cover up with potatoes to the top of the dish, and lay a paste on the top.

Plating

Source public domain per archive.org metadata; unverified
Credit

From Cookery for the lancashire operatives (1863), printed page 16, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cookeryforlancas00engl

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.