MUTTON PIE (Cold Meat Cookery)

Ingredients

• The remains of a cold leg
• loin, or neck of mutton
• pepper and salt to taste
• 2 blade pounded mace
• 1 dessertspoonful chopped parsley
• 1 teaspoonful minced savoury herbs, when liked
• a little minced onion or shalot
• 3-4 potatoes
• 1 teacupful gravy
• crust

Instructions

1. Cold mutton may be made into very good pies if well seasoned and mixed with a few herbs;
2. if the leg is used, cut it into very thin slices;
3. if the loin or neck, into thin cutlets.
4. Place some at the bottom of the dish;
5. season well with pepper, salt, mace, parsley, and herbs;
6. then put a layer of potatoes sliced, then more mutton, and so on till the dish is full;
7. add the gravy, cover with a crust, and bake for 1 hour.