A Sea Pie

Ingredients

• boiled pork or salt beef
• potatoes
• onions
• salt
• pepper
• thyme
• parsley
• crackers
• fowl or veal
• paste
• butter
• water
• wine
• catsup
• cloves

Instructions

1. Lay slices of boiled pork or salt beef at the bottom of a small Dutch oven. Add a layer of potatoes and onions cut in slices, seasoned with salt, pepper, thyme, and parsley shred fine, along with some soaked crackers and a layer of fowls cut up or slices of veal.
2. Cover this layer with paste not too rich, then add another layer of each article, continuing to build layers and covering each with paste until the oven is full. Put a little butter between each layer.
3. Pour in water until it reaches the top crust. Add wine, catsup of any kind you please, and some pounded cloves to the water.
4. Let it stew until there is just gravy enough left. Serve it in a deep dish and pour the gravy over.