A Grete Pye

Recipe Type: Ancient Cuisine

Serves: 6 to 8 people

Ingredients:
1 lb. short crust pastry
1 egg white
1 lb. Chicken Breast
1 Duck
Salt and Pepper
1 lb. Minced Beef
2 tbsp. Shredded Suet
3 Hard-Boiled eggs, yolks crushed
tsp. Ground Cinnamon, mace
1 oz. Chopped cooking dates
1 oz. Currants
2 oz. Prunes
cup beef stock
1 tbsp. rice flour
Directions:
1. This recipe can include any type of meat that could have been
found.
2. Use over half of the pastry to line a 23-cm/9-in pie plate.
Brush the inside with egg white.
3. Skin the pieces of breast and other meat then let it simmer
for 10-15 minutes. Drain and leave cool.

4. Mix together minced beef, suet, and salt and pepper to taste,
the egg yolk and half the spice mixture on a large bowl.
5. Add the rest of the spices to cooking dates, currants, and
prunes in a different bowl.
6. Slice the boiled meat.
7. Pre-heat oven to 425F
8. Add 1 or 2 tbsp. of beef stock to rice flour in a small
saucepan and cream together; add the remaining stock and stir
over gently. Let it cool.
9. Cover the bottom of the pastry with half of the mince mixture
and place eat in a flat layer on top.
10. Scatter the chopped fruit over it and cover the remaining
with mince
11. Pour the thickened stock over the lot.
12. Roll out the remaining pastry into a circle to make a lid for
the pie. Brush the rim of the case with a little more egg white
and cover with the lid.
13. Press the edges to seal, and cut escape slits for steam.
Decorate as you please and glaze with egg white.
14. Bake for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 325 F and bake for
45-50 minutes longer.
15. Serves 6 to 8.
Notes: This was served in many great medieval feasts. It goes
well with mutton and is a great dinner pie. Nobles would come all
over to taste some of this to die for ancient cuisine. Made
from much of what is around them it can be adapted in many ways
based on your taste preference or, from your own resources.
On a side note the origin of this dish comes from the journey
that ancient warriors took to this recipe from the mages and
adapted it to their own liking. Originally, the mages used this
pye to heal the sick and wounded quickly. But, as time progressed
the recipe has been adapted to become a culinary delight that
everyone can enjoy.
Resources: www.epicurus.com/recipes/A_Grete_Pye