As I hostels in 1974 as a language of unemancipated students for the purpose of improvement in Scotland’s youth and pubs was on the road, I came across in the food supply in the Hostels on deep-drawn canned food with the label “Steak and Kidney Pie”. A combination of kidney and Steak in a Pie? This was too strange to resist her! The lid was removed by a can opener, and the Rest to bake in a sheet metal container, in the oven. A pre with eingedoste leaves that looks much better dough blanket more bad than good, and so you pushed and including inquiring finished, you found there a kind of goulash. It was edible.
The dosage and it still exists today as a “Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney Pie”, 425 g weight to 3,51 £, www.britsuperstore.com according to the self-promotion a “classic juicy pieces of kidney and Steak in a delicious gravy under a puff pastry dome to house recipe”.
I can’t remember, to be more than one of these doses is addressed, but as I was in 2003 on the Isle of Skye in a second-hand bookshop Margaret Alice Faircloughs “the Ideal Cookery Book” rose (Waverley, London, 1911), I came across the recipe for the Original of the Pies. Immediately and even in the holidays I went to the preparation of, and have made them since then, repeatedly and gladly. The court is in the use of good ingredients, delicious, wonderfully old-fashioned and, of course, on the table.
the book of Fairclough, I leave to the acquisition of first re-bind – it is today a treasure of the Victorian kitchen chest.
shopping list and preparation
A Pie case is an oven-baked dish in a Pastry, and can often consist of only a pastry lid. Pies can be both sweet and salty.
For the meaty contents of our Steakand-Kidney Pies we buy:
750 g Beef, 250 g of beef kidney, 1 TBSP flour, salt, pepper, 1 small onion and 1 bottle of Stout or Porter (Guinness, Köstritzer black beer, Etc.).
For the pastry lid, we will need: 250 g of flour, salt, 125 g cold Butter, ice water, 1 Egg.
And so we go: The Sirloin into slices of 3-5 mm cut Thickness. The kidney is initially clean, i.e., all sinewy and gefäßigen parts cut and the dog, the adherent renal fat but keep it safe and in small pieces cut.
The knobby, walnut cutting large kidney parts in small, hazelnut-sized pieces.
1 heaping TBSP flour with 1 level TSP salt and 1/4 TSP pepper mix. (Seasoned flour is in Piabet the Anglo-Saxon cuisine is very popular, it raises the flavor and thickens the Sauce.) Successively each of the slices of steak meat in this Würzmehl specks, with 1 piece of kidney and a scrap of kidney fat show and roll up. The rolls in a Pie shape of approximately 28 cm in diameter and hardworking so many more of the rolls crafts, until the mold is completely filled.
peel The onion, finely dice, and the rolls sprinkle. The meat to two-thirds with the Stout and water in a ratio of 50 : 50 to fill.
For the pastry lid 250 g of flour in a bowl and add salt, the cold Butter Cubes to the flour and distribute between the thumb and index fingers of both hands rapidly with the flour zerzwirbeln, on a reasonably fine crumbly mass. Now, again, so much ice water and knead a firm dough, and roll it out to about 1/2 cm thick a Scope that extends beyond the diameter of the Pie-shape around 1-2 cm.
The dough needs to stay cold, so he is mürb when baking flaky, hence the hurry and the ice-water; the warmth of the Hand to be the dough not to tell.
to shape The remaining dough into a long schlängelig-thin role. The edge of the Pie plate with water, with the dough snake show and the dough is so pressing that it covers the edge of the Pie-shape beaded. Now this bead, moisten the rolled out disc of Dough over the filled Form, the Supernatant with a knife (pastry store), place the dough lid, pressing it with a fork to the Edge and decorate. In the center of the lid cut a hole in, as a steam vent during baking.
forms the rest of The dough to ornamentation as we see fit and place the dough lid. The Egg verkleppern and the pastry brush.
The Pie is initially at 200 degrees in the oven mid-bake, until the pastry lid is visible (approx. 20-30 minutes), reduce the heat to 180 degrees and cook the Pie at the end, a total of about 2 hours; cover it with Alu.
The Pie-principle for using up leftovers
is the idea of The pastry lid as a protection and an ornament, when the remains are to serve appealing. Here bought TK-puff pastry is really handy. Example: 2 TBSP Butter, lather, and 1 onion diced in it for 10 minutes, until they are translucent. Slices of 2 carrots, angaren and take out. 2 fillets of pork into 2-3 cm thick Cubes, in the seasoned flour, one by one in the frying Pan, and between the bearings. Is browned all the meat, then vegetables and 100 g add the dried apricots, 150 ml of Apple juice and 350 ml meat fond and pear juice, gently bring to the boil, lids and in the 160 degree oven for 45-60 minutes to cook hot. Serve with rice. The remains of it (it should be) freezing, or canning. If necessary, in a Pie-dish, with thawed puff pastry to cover and seal (with air hole) and place in oven at 180-200 degrees for 30 minutes to bake. A colorful leaf salad and a glass of white wine.
