Steak Pie
Tudor Food RecipeSteak Pie Recipe | To make the best Steak Pie
To make a Steake pye, with a French Pudding in the Pye. Season your Steaks with Pepper & Nutmegs, and let it stand an hour in a Tray then take a piece of the leanest of a Legg of Mutton and mince it small with Suet and a few sweet herbs, tops of young Time, a branch of Penny-royal, two or three of red Sage, grated bread, yolks of Eggs, sweet Cream, Raisins of the Sun; work altogether like a Pudding, with your hand stiff, and roul them round like Bals, and put them into the Steaks in a deep Coffin, with a piece of sweet Butter; sprinkle a little Verjuyce on it, bake it, then cut it up and roul Sage leaves and fry them, and stick them upright in the wals, and serve your Pye without a Cover, with the juyce of an Orange or Lemon. |
Steak Pie Tudor Food Recipe
The above Tudor recipe for Steak Pie is written in totally different fashion to modern recipe books! - There were no lists of ingredients in Tudor recipes - these were included as part of the text
- Ingredient measurements were extremely basic during the Tudors era and quantities were not often specified!
- Temperature control was difficult and therefore not specified - this was left to the cook
- Cooking times were also vague and left to the cook
- It was assumed that the person reading the recipe would already have some knowledge of cooking
The History of the Recipe Book - Some of the language might be referred to as 'Olde English'
- The art of cooking and the recipe was passed verbally from one generation to the next
- The first printed book ever to be published in English was in 1474!
- Many Tudor women were unable to read
- The idea of a Recipe Book was an entirely new concept in the renaissance period of the Tudors
- The first Recipe Books to be printed in England which included many old Tudor and Medieval recipes were called:
- 1545 - 'A Propre new booke of Cokery'
- 1588 - 'The Good Huswifes Handmaid for Cookerie in her kitchen'
- 1596 - 'The Good Hyswife's Jewell'
- 1610 'Mrs. Sarah Longe her Receipt Booke'
Steak Pie Recipe
The above Old recipe is taken from the book entitled: The Compleat Cook
Expertly Prescribing The Most Ready Wayes, Whether Italian, Spanish Or French, For Dressing Of Flesh And Fish, Ordering Of Sauces Or Making Of Pastry
Author: Anonymous
Printed by E.B. for Nath. Brook , at the Angel in Cornhill , 1658 Steak Pie Recipe
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