Hindle Wakes Pie

Name: Hindle Wakes Pie
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: 250 g (½ lb) shortcrust pastry; 1 free-range egg, beaten with 2 tablespoons milk cream; 200 g (7 oz) puff pastry; 2 litres (3½ pints) poaching liquid 12 baby leeks or 3 or 4 normal ones, cooked until tender; 1.5 kg (generous 3 lbs) freshly poached chicken; 1 lemon; 250 g (8 oz) button mushrooms, blanched and dried; 2 teaspoons tarragon, finely chopped salt and pepper

Preparation info

Serves
6 to 8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Modern Classics

By Frances Bissell

Published 2000

About

Ingredients

1.5 kg (generous 3 lbs) freshly poached chicken
2 litres (3½

Main course

Method

Remove the meat from the chicken. Discard the skin. Chop the bones, if you can, and put them back in the cooking liquid.

Simmer for 30 minutes. Then strain, and boil down the liquid to about 500 mls (18 oz..<