How to Make Devonshire Squab Pie – The Victorian Way

[Music] today i'm making devonshire squab pie it is a simple and delicious dish using mutton and apples for this recipe you will need [Music] apples [Music] onion [Music] mutton [Music] butter [Music] puff pastry fat [Music] some stock and for seasoning salt [Music] and pepper the flavor of onion isn't much liked by the family as it's generally felt it encourages bad breath and bloating however a little bit of well-cooked onion works really well in this pie so i'm using half an onion sylvia has already peeled and cooled the apples so now i'm going to slice them evenly squab means pigeon there isn't any pigeon in this pie and i don't know why it's called devonshire either although coming from devonshire i can tell you there are plenty of apples there are also quite a lot of sheep [Music] i'm now going to brown off the meat mutton is one of my favorite meats some people think it's far superior to lamb mutton is leaner and more flavoursome and it takes on spice and strong flavors really well it is ideal for slow cooking depending on your cut i've read that the queen loves mutton and she favors sheep that are over 10 years [Music] now i've lined my dish with butter i need to layer in the ingredients mutton first and now half the onions the apples i'm going to highly season this dish with salt and pepper and now to start again with the layering i'll now add my stock now this needs to go into an oven for an hour and a half i need to cover it i might save on my paper and use this salt paste [Music] obviously i'm not going to serve it with this salt crust so i should just remove it [Music] as this dish is for the family i shall layer on now some puff pastry to elevate it to the right kind of dish but first i shall place in my pie funnel as when it's cooking this will help the steam escape and mean the mixture can boil nicely [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] i'm going to cover it with this egg wash of egg salt a little milk and now i'm going to decorate it to truly make it suitable for the family's table i'm going to brush some of the egg wash on only some of the pastry to give it an effect and now it needs to go back into the oven for 20 minutes [Music] this is a fairly plain dish suitable for the family at supper or luncheon i wouldn't serve it to their guests unless they were very well known by the family there you are devonshear squab pie [Music] you

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Length: 10min 27sec (627 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 05 2020