Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott

Published 2004

  • About

The word ciste is the Welsh for coffyn, the original term for meat cooked in a pastry case or, as we call it, a pie.

Ingredients

  • 8 venison chops
  • ¼ cup (½ stick) butter
  • 4</

Method

Trim the chops, stripping the end bones free of fat and gristle. Heat the butter and brown the chops and the sliced kidneys. Add the onion and carrots.

In a medium saucepan, arrange the chops vertically, going around the inside of the pan with the bone ends sticking up. Place the kidneys and vegetables in the center, season with the parsley, thyme, bay leaf, salt, and pepper, and add en