Pancake Pie

Name: Pancake Pie
Yield: Serves Four
Ingredients: 8 pancakes (see French Crêpes or Pancakes); 8 pancakes (see French Crêpes or Pancakes); 1 tablespoon beef dripping; 450 g/1 lb minced beef; 1 large onion, chopped; 1 stick celery, chopped; 4 rashers streaky bacon, diced; 1 clove garlic, crushed; ½ tablespoon flour; 150 ml/¼ pint stock; 1 tablespoon sherry or Madeira or Marsala; 1 tablespoon sherry or Madeira or Marsala; 1 tablespoon sherry or Madeira or Marsala; 1 tablespoon tomato purée; pinch of thyme; 1 (142-ml/5-fl oz) carton soured cream; salt and freshly ground black pepper; salt and freshly ground black pepper; chopped parsley

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking for Friends

By Prue Leith

Published 1978

About

Ingredients

8 pancakes (see French Crêpes or Pancakes)
1 tablespoon beef dripping
450

Main course
Pie

Method

Make the pancakes according to the recipe and leave them in the folds of a tea towel while you make the meat sauce.

Melt half the fat in a large heavy-bottomed saucepan and in it brown the meat well. With a perforated spoon lift out the meat and then fry the onion, celery, bacon and garlic until they are just turning brown, adding more fat if necessary. Return the meat to the saucepan a