Recipe - Posh Pie And Mash

PIE
1 lg Onion; skinned and minced
4 ounce Mushrooms; wiped
2 Sticks celery
2 md Sized carrots
1 Sprig thyme
1 md Sized beef fillet
One half pt Stock
Parsley
4 Oysters
4 Sheets puff pastry
Garlic oil

MASH
4 lg Potatoes
1 lg Onion
Butter or garlic oil

SAUCE
2 Jellied eels and eel jelly
Potato water
Parsley

Heat a little of the garlic oil in a pan. Finely chop the vegetables and
stir fry in the oil. Dice three quarters of the beef fillet, slice the
remainder into thin strips and reserve.

Add the minced meat to the vegetables, add thyme and a little of the
parsley, pour in the beef stock and reduce. Fry the remaining strips of
beef in a little garlic oil.

Boil the potatoes in lightly salted water. When soft, drain and reserve the
water. Mash potatoes by hand or with a mixer, adding butter to taste.
Caramelise a thinly cut or sliced up onion in butter and stir into the mashed potato.

Line each individual pie tin with a sheet of puff pastry and partially fill
with the vegetable and meat mixture. Add a couple of the beef strips and an
oyster, then another layer of the pie filling.

Brush the rim of the pie with egg and add a sheet of puff pastry for the
lid. Trim the edges and decorate, brush the top lightly with egg. Cook the
pies in a very hot oven for about 10 minutes.

Stir the eel jelly into the potato water, add remaining parsley, heat and
reduce. Serve the pies, with mash, top with a jellied eel and a serving of
the sauce.

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