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Duck and Chicken Pie.
water, twenty corns of whole pepper, three blades of
mace, a bundle of sweet herbs, and a large onion ; cover
them close, and stew them softly till they are tender;
then have a good crust ready, cover your dish, lay a
fine rump-steak at the bottom, seasoned with pepper and
salt; lay in your giblets with the livers, and strain the
liquor they were stewed in. Season it with pepper and
salt, and pour in your pie; put on the lid, and bake it
an hour and a half.
A Duck Pie. Make a puff-paste crust, take two duck9,
scald them, and make them clean, cut off the feet, the
pinions, the neck, and head, picked and scalded clean,
with the gizzards, livers and hearts; pick out all the
fat of the inside ; lay a crust over the dish, season the
ducks with pepper and salt, inside and out, lay them in
your dish, and the giblets at each end seasoned ; put in
as much water as will almost fill the pie, lay on tbe
crust, and bake it, but not too much.
A Chicken Pie. Make a puff-paste crust; take two
chickens, cut them to pieces, season with pepper and salt,
a little beaten mace, lay a force-meat made thus round
the side of the dish: take half a pound of veal, half a
pound of suet, beat them quite fine in a marble mortar,
with as many crumbs of bread ; season it with a little
pepper and salt, an anchovy with the liquor, out it to
pieces, a little lemon-peel cut very fine, and shred small,
a very little thyme, mix all together with the yolk of an
egg ; make some into balls, about twelve, the rest lay
round the dish. Lay in one chicken over the bottom of
the dish; take two sweetbreads, cut them into five or
six pieces, lay them all over, season with pepper and salt,
strew over half an ounce of truffles and morels, two or
' three artichoke bottoms cut to pieces, a few cockscombs,
a palate boiled tender, and cut to pieces; then lay on the
1 other part of the chicken, put half a pint of water in,
j and cover the pie ; bake it well, and when it comes out
of the oven, fill it with good gravy, lay on the crust, and
1 send it to table.
