Chewets of Beef

Name: Chewets of Beef
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 1 hard-boiled egg yolk; 8 oz/225 g lean beef; 8 oz/200 g plain flour made into pastry; 1 tbs/15 ml cider vinegar; 3 oz/75 g chicken; 8 grapes; 1 tsp salt; pinch of saffron; ½ tsp mixed ginger and cloves

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking and Dining in Medieval England

By Peter Brears

Published 2008

About

Ingredients

8 oz/225 g lean beef
3 oz/75

Europe
United Kingdom
Pie

Method

Chop the beef, chicken and egg yolk, and mix with the remaining ingredients.

Use two-thirds of the pastry to make 4 pie cases some 2½ins/6cm diameter by 1½ inches/4cm high. Pack with the mixture. Use the remaining pastry to make the lids, moistening the edges and pinching them into place. Cut a hole in the centre of each lid.