Name: Shooters’ Game Pie
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: Snack - Serves twelve
Ingredients: 500 g hot water pastry [see ‘Loose Birds’ Chicken, Hawes Wensleydale and Hambleton Ale Pie]; 2 duck breasts; 2 pheasant breasts; 4 wood pigeon breasts; 4 tbsp sloe gin; 2 gelatine leaves; 8 juniper berries; 50 g redcurrant jelly; 200 g pork shoulder, minced; 2 guinea fowl breasts; seasoning; 1 egg yolk [to glaze]; 100 ml game stock

Preparation info

Snack - Serves
twelve

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
2 hr 30

Appears in

Loose Birds & Game

By Andrew Pern

Published 2010

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A CUTTING PIE MADE DURING THE AUTUMN AND WINTER MONTHS. LAYERS OF LOCAL GAME ENHANCED WITH SLOE GIN AND A REDCURRANT JELLY, AND ‘STUCK TOGETHER’ WITH A PEPPERY, HERBED FORCEMEAT. GREAT WITH A CHUNK OF WENSLEYDALE CHEESE AND MAYBE THE ODD PICKLED ONION.