Beef: Basic Recipe

Beefsteak Pie

Preparation info
  • 6

    helpings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      2 hr

Appears in

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1861

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Ingredients

  • lb. lean beefsteak
  • seasoned flour
  • 2 onions
  • stock or

Method

Wipe the meat, remove the skin and superfluous fat and cut meat into small cubes. Dip the cubes in the seasoned flour and place in a pie-dish, piling them higher in the centre. Peel and finely chop the onions; sprinkle them between the pieces of meat. Sprinkle any remaining seasoned flour between the meat. Add enough stock or water to quarter fill the dish. Roll out the pastry