Florence White

Rook Pies

South Notts

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      2 hr 30

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By Florence White

Published 1932

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Ingredients

  • Young rooks
  • pepper and salt
  • beef steak
  • butter
  • flaky pastry for pie crust.

Method

  1. Pluck, draw and skin the young birds.
  2. Cut out the back bone; it is bitter.
  3. Season with pepper and salt.
  4. Stew first to partly cook and let them get cold.
  5. Lay a beef steak in the bottom of the dish.
  6. Place the birds on it.
  7. Pour a good deal of melted butter thickened with flour and diluted with stoc