Veal Or Lamb Pie A Haut Gout

CUT the meat into small pieces, and son with pepper salt, cloves,mace , and nutmeg, beaten fine: make a puff-paste, lay it into the dish, then put in your meat, and strew on it some stoned raisins and currants, clean washed and picked, and some sugar; lay on forcemeat balls, made sweet: and if in the summer, some artichoke bottoms; but if in winter, scalded grapes; add to this spanish potatoes boiled, and cut into pieces, candied citron, orange, or lemon-peel, and three or four blades of mace; put butter on the top : close up your pie, and bake it : have ready against it is done, the yolks of three eggs, mixed with a pint of wine; stir them well together over the fire one way till it is thick; take it off, put a bit of sugar, and squeeze in the juice of a lemon ; raise the lid of the pie, put this hot into it, close it up again, and send it to table.

Calves' Feet Pie

Boil the feet in three quarts of water, with three or four blades of mace, till reduced to a pint and a half; take out the feet, strain the liquor, and make a good crust; cover your dish, take the flesh from the hones, and put half into it; strew over it half a pound of currants, washed and picked, and half a pound of raisins stoned ; then lav on the rest of your meat; skim the liquor it was boiled in, sweeten it to your taste, and put in half a pint of white wine: pour all into the dish; put on the Lid, and bake it an hour and a half.

Sweetbread Pie

Lay puff-paste, half an inch thick, at the bottom of a deep dish, and put the force-meat round the sides; cut three or four .sweetbreads, according to the size of the pie; lay them in first, then artichoke bottoms cut into four pieces each, then cocks' combs, truffles, and morels, some asparagus tops, and fresh mushrooms, a few yolks of eggs boiled hard, and forcemeat balls: season with pepper and salt; almost fill the pie with water, cover, and bake it two hours : when you take it out of the oven, pour in some rich veal gravy, and thicken it with a little cream and flour.