Yorkshire Christmas Pie

Name: Yorkshire Christmas Pie
Yield: Serves 8-10
Ingredients: 3⅓ cups (415 g) bread flour; 2 tablespoons plus ¾ teaspoon black pepper; 3⅓ cups (415 g) all-purpose flour, plus more for the work surface; 1 lb (450 g) ground meat, such as veal, pork, lamb, or poultry; 6½ tablespoons (100 ml) Madeira or sherry; 3½ oz (100 g) thin bacon slices; 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh thyme; 1 egg yolk beaten with 1 tablespoon whole milk, for egg wash; 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley; 1 egg, lightly beaten; 2 wild hare saddles, about 9 oz (250 g) total (or additional poultry breasts); 2½ tablespoons ground mace; 2 tablespoons ground nutmeg; 1 lb (450 g) boneless, skinless chicken breasts; 10½ oz (300 g) boneless, skinless pheasant breasts; ¾ lb (340 g) boneless, skinless partridge breasts; 3 oz (90 g) boneless, skinless quail breast; Pinch of sea salt; 5½ oz (155 g) lard, at room temperature; 3½ teaspoons ground cloves or allspice; 1½ teaspoons sea salt; ½ cup (115 g) unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into several pieces; 1¼ cups (300 ml) water

Preparation info

Serves
8-10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Official Downton Abbey Christmas Cookbook

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

About

In 1858, a Yorkshire Christmas pie was served to Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle. The pie was beautifully decorated but also of such enormous size that it had to be carried into the room on the shoulders of four footmen. Although not all Yorkshire Christmas pies were so large, they were a status symbol because of the expensive ingredients used. This was also true in the seventeenth century, as illustrated by these few lines from Robert Herrick’s poem “Christmas Eve”: “Come guard this night

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Margaret Crawford

1 year ago from Australia

Looked wonderful but collapsed.
I would not attempt to unmould to glaze next time and would fill with aspic even though my family do not like ‘savoury jelly’. I boned quail for filling and that made it a bit fiddly.

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