Name: Sweet lamb pie
Yield: For 4 people
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 1 tsp butter; 10 g (¼ oz) candied citrus peel, finely chopped; ¼ tsp ground mace; 1 tbsp chopped parsley; 50 g (1¾ oz) dried barberries and/or currants; 150 g (5½ oz) artichoke hearts, cooked, cut into 1 cm (½ inch) dice; 300 g (10½ oz) sweet potato, peeled and cooked, cut into 1 cm (½ inch) dice; 300 g (10½ oz) minced lamb neck; ⅛ tsp ground black pepper; 1 tsp sugar; the same amount of white wine; 400 g (14 oz) leg of lamb, deboned; 4 cloves, ground; 1 tsp ground nutmeg; 1 quantity Hot water crust pastry; 1 egg yolk; juice of 1 lemon

Preparation info

For
4
people

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Oats in the North, Wheat from the South

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

About

The Sweet lamb pie from Eliza Smith’s The Compleat Housewife from 1727 is a good example of the old style of flavouring food using sweet, sour and savoury in harmony. The flavours come through in layers. The pie isn’t sweet but the spices used – nutmeg, mace and cloves – were once considered sweet spices and used as sweeteners. In addition to these spices, dried fruits and candied peel are added to give extra warmth. The original reci