Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Pigeon Pie

Ingredients

  • Fresh pigeon
  • Gravy
  • Puff pastry/pie dough
  • A pie tin
  • Shredded lean ham
  • Hardboiled eggs
  • Ground pepper
  • Minced parsley
  • Lemon Juice
  • Butter
  • Flour
  • An oven

Directions

  1. Clean and stuff the pigeon.
  2. Loosen the joints with a knife and boil the pigeon in gravy for ten minutes.
  3. Line a pie tin with pie dough and place in shreds of lean ham, slice hardboiled eggs.
  4. Add in the pigeon, sprinkled with pepper and parsley, with lemon juice squeezed on them as well.
  5. Cover the pigeon with more slices of egg and shredded ham and pour in enough gravy which the pigeon boiled in to almost fill the pie.
  6. Cover the pie with a blanket of pie dough, leaving a hole in the top, and bake for an hour.
Source — The Unrivalled Cook-Book
Prepared by Alexander J. Kyle
Louisiana Anthology
April 3, 2024

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