Rabbit Pie

Name: Rabbit Pie
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 6–8 helpings
Ingredients: ½ lb. bacon or pickled pork; salt and pepper; salt and pepper; ½ pt. stock; 1 rabbit; ½ lb. beef steak; ½ lb. bacon or pickled pork; puff pastry using 8 oz. flour, etc.; puff pastry using 8 oz. flour, etc.; egg for glazing

Preparation info

6–8
helpings

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 45

Appears in

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1871

About

Ingredients

1 rabbit
½ lb. beef steak
½ lb. bacon

Main course
Pie

Method

Wash, dry and joint the rabbit, dice the beef and bacon or pork. Place these ingredients in layers in a pie-dish, season well, ¾ fill dish with stock. Cover with pastry. Bake 1¾–2 hr. in a hot oven (425°–450° F., Gas 7–8) for 15 min., and in a moderate oven (350° F., Gas 4) for the remainder of the time. Glaze with egg 20 min. before pie is cooked. Add remaind