A Sea Pie

Origin: Tidewater Virginia

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

Instructions

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

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