English Chicken Pie Recipe ingredients

• 1 chicken
• ½ pound veal fillet
• 4 ounces bacon
• 3 hard-cooked eggs
• ¼ pound mushrooms
• 2 tablespoons Crisco
• pepper and salt to taste
• chopped parsley
• puff-pastry
• stock
• 1 egg

To prepare this English Chicken Pie Recipe, first cut fowl into small joints, season these with salt and pepper. Slice veal thinly, line bottom of fireproof dish with this, place on top a layer of chicken. Chop mushrooms finely, saute them in Crisco in small stewpan; sprinkle half of this over pieces of chicken, then layer of hard-cooked eggs, over that thin slices bacon and chopped parsley. Continue in this way until all ingredients are used up and the fireproof dish is full; fill dish three parts full with stock. Put a strip of pastry round the edge of dish, wet this lightly with water, cover the pie with puff-pastry rolled out to the proper size and thickness; press down the paste on to the wet edge of paste, trim round. Decorate the paste at the edge according to taste; brush over pie with beaten egg, make a slit in the center of the lid, and place a circle of pastry leaves round it. Put pie in moderate oven, and bake about 1 1/2 hours. Pour in a little stock before serving.