A Very Fine Savoury Pie

Ingredients

• 1 fine veal cutlet
• smoked beef fat
• fine cold jelly
• hard boiled eggs
• chicken or sweetbread
• lemon-juice
• essence of mushroom
• pepper
• salt
• nutmeg
• 1 blade of mace
• small cakes of fine forcemeat
• fine puff paste
• 1 egg

Instructions

1. Arrange the veal cutlet pieces, seasoned, in the bottom of the dish. Layer over it smoked beef fat, then a layer of fine cold jelly made from gravy-beef and veal. Add hard boiled eggs in slices, then chicken or sweetbread. Continue layering with jelly and other fillings until the dish is filled.
2. Season highly with lemon-juice, essence of mushroom, pepper, salt, and nutmeg. Add a blade of mace if approved. Small cakes of fine forcemeat may be incorporated as an improvement.
3. Cover with fine puff paste and brush over with egg. Bake until golden.