Name: Humble Pie
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 2 oz (50 g) Gruyere cheese, grated; salt, black pepper; 2 oz (50 g) butter; 8-10 oz (250-300 g) Jerusalem artichokes; 1 tablespoon (15 ml spoon) thick honey; juice of 1 lemon; 2 teaspoons (2 x 5 ml spoons) dill seeds; 1 tablespoon (15 ml spoon) tomato purée; 2 lb (1 kg) lean minced pork; 2 tablespoons (2 x 15 ml spoon) olive oil; 2 large garlic cloves; 1 lb (500 g) leeks; 2½ lb (1.1 kg) swede

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking for Christmas

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1978

About

In our house Christmas Eve is for last-minute preparations and wrapping up of stocking presents. It is also the day before the big meal, so I always feel that supper on Christmas Eve should be something homely and satisfying, not rich and lavish, in view of what is to follow. So I suggest this layered pie, a very popular family dish. It makes a busy evening simpler because it can be prepared beforehand and then just put in the oven and it only needs a green salad as an accompaniment.