A Sea Pie
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- boiled pork or salt beef
- potatoes
- onions
- salt
- pepper
- thyme
- parsley
- crackers
- fowl or veal
- paste
- butter
- water
- wine
- catsup
- cloves
Instructions
- 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.
- Cover them with a paste, not too rich.
- Put another layer of each article and cover them with paste, until the oven is full, putting a little butter between each layer.
- 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.
- Let it stew until there is just gravy enough left.
- Serve it in a deep dish and pour the gravy on.