Small Raised Mutton Pies

The following recipe is taken from the dinner book for 1805, of John Simpson, cook to the first Marquess of Buckingham (George, third Earl Temple). A dish of these small mutton pies was one of the side dishes served on January 3rd, 1805, at Gosfield Hall. The recipe is equally good to-day: the pies can be made either in small shallow upright tins lined with pastry, and represent ‘raised’ pies, or, when made for sale, there is a small English-made machine that will stamp out