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Title: Pigeon or Squab Pie
Categories: Poultry Pie Game
Yield: 1 Pie
| 6 | Pigeons or squabs (about 5 pounds drawn weight) | |
| 6 | Livers from birds | |
| 1/2 | ts | Salt |
| 1/4 | ts | Pepper |
| 2 | ts | Parsley |
| Butter or margarine | ||
| 1 | lb | Sirloin or round steak cut paper thin |
| 1/2 | lb | Mushrooms, chopped |
| 1 | c | Chopped parsley |
| 4 | Hard-cooked egg yolks | |
| 1 1/2 | c | Brown gravy (13.4 oz can) |
| ******PUFF PASTRY******* | ||
| 1 | c | Butter |
| 2 | c | Sifted cake flour |
| 1/4 | To 1/2 cup ice water |
Rinse the birds in cold water, drain and pat dry. Chop the livers and mix with salt, pepper, and parsley. Place some of the liver mixture and a dot of butter in each bird. Truss the birds. Line the bottom of a 14- x 9- x 2-inch baking dish with the beef, then with a layer of mushrooms and parsley. Set the birds on this, separating each from the other with hard-cooked egg yolks. Pour the brown gravy over the birds. Cover the top of the baking dish with puff pastry, being sure to secure edges. Make gashes or a design down the center of the pastry. Bake in a 450*F. oven 8-10 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown, and the birds are cooked. Makes 6 servings.
PUFF PASTRY********
Allow half of butter to soften. Cut remaining butter into flour with 2 knives scissors-fashion or with pastry blender until all the tiny particles of fat are coated with flour. Add ice water a little at a time, toss with fork, use only enough water to hold ingredients together.
On lightly floured board roll out dough 1/4-inch thick and square shaped. Spread two thirds of dough with a quarter of the softened butter; fold unbuttered third over center third and fold remaining buttered third over to cover first third, buttered side down. (You should have 3 layers of dough with butter between each layer.) Roll the dough to about 1/4-inch thickness and make it square again. Spread with another quarter of the butter. Fold as before; chill thoroughly (about 1 hour each time). Roll, spread with butter, fold and chill 2 more times. Roll into rectangle large enough to fit top of casserole. Bake in 450*F. oven 8-10 minutes, then reduce heat heat to 350*F. and bake as directed in Pigeon Pie or longer until golden and puffed.
1 BULLOCK, Hellen Duprey Recipes of Ante Bellum America. Heirloom Publishing Company. New York.
MM Format by John Hartman Indianapolis, IN
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