Recipe - Raised Pork Pie

1 pound Pork (lean and fat mixed)
Salt and pepper
1 teaspoon Mixed dried herbs
One fourth pt Jellied stock (made from
pork bones)

HOT WATER CRUST
1 pound Plain flour
1 teaspoon Salt
7 ounce Lard
7 One half fl Milk and warm water (mixed
in equal proportions)
Milk (for glaze) optional
A jar (eg. a kilner jar)*

Dice pork for filling, season well and add herbs. For hot water crust: warm
a mixing bowl and sift in flour and salt, make a well in the centre of the
flour. Heat lard in milk and water. When just boiling, pour into the well
in the flour, stir quickly with a wooden spoon until thick, then work with
hand to a dough. Turn on to a board or table, cut off a quarter of the
dough, put it back in the bowl and cover with a cloth.

Pat out the rest of dough with the fist to a thick round, set a large jar
in the centre and work dough up sides. Let dough cool then gently lift out
jar. Fill dough case with meat mixture. Roll or pat out remaining dough to
form a lid, leave a small hole in it, then put on top of pie, seal edges.
Glaze with milk if wished.

Slide pie on to a baking sheet and bake in preset oven for 11 One half hours
at 350 F. If pie is getting too brown, cover with damp greasproof paper
towards end of cooking time. Leave till cool before placing a funnel in
hole in lid and filling up with jellied stock.

WATCHPOINT You must work quickly and mould pastry while it is still warm,
otherwise lard sets and pastry becomes brittle. (I make small ones using
small jars or straight sided glasses)

* Please don't ask me what a kilner jar is 'cause I don't know. I'll ask on
the net B)

Origin:Cordon Bleu (Second Edition) Volume II, Book 36, Page 8

Doreen

ynnuf@yetti.wanganui.gen.nz

Doreen Randal, 135 Ikitara Road, Wanganui 5001, New Zealand

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