How to Make Pigeon Pie - The Victorian Way

[Music] this year is running away with me I can't believe the shooting season is nearly over here at all the end house on shoot days the guns preferred to have a big breakfast and then a brief but hearty lunch this pie is a spectacular way of using up pigeons and is ideal for a shooting lunch for this recipe you will need pigeon breasts mushrooms truffles quails eggs salt pepper cloves and mace herbs as you choose port or Madeira whiskey stop with some melted gelatine pastry and for the forcemeat vo mints cooked ham and [Music] breadcrumbs I've already greased my mold so firstly I need to line it with some pastry unlike liked pastries for tarts this needs to stand on its own so needs to be well worked don't roll out your pastry for that makes for weak sides cut off any excess and put it to the side for the top shooting lunches often happen far away from the home so food needs to be packaged and then transported there now fulfilling there are many recipes for forcemeat I'm using quite a simple one that has veal ham and breadcrumbs now I'm going to line my pie now I'm ready to layer in the rest of my ingredients starting with the mushrooms and now some pigeon breasts [Music] some of the herbs and I have parsley thyme and sage a few of the truffles a little of the spice [Music] a few quails eggs [Music] and now repeat [Music] [Music] and now to add the liquid [Music] I'm now rolling out the rest of the pastry to make the lid [Music] [Music] [Music] not forgetting to make an air hole for the steam Marianne has already cut me out some nice leaves decorating the top of pies is very popular [Music] [Music] there and as it's a pigeon pie I should just add some feet [Music] there it's ready for the oven for about an hour and a half a practically perfect pigeon pie [Music] I let the pie cool and then pour it in some stock with a little gelatine and now it's ready to be served [Music] I'm going to serve it with a bed of watercress and there you have it pigeon pie perfect for a cold lunch [Music] you

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Length: 9min 3sec (543 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 01 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/H_G_Bells]

"as it's a pigeon pie, we'll add some feet" haha what?? Crap, have I been disappointing my guess by leaving feet off of my chicken pork and beef pies?? I didn't know feet were a good garnish >_<

[u/TheLadyEve]

I wish they had showed her making the pastry. The recipe states it's a simple cold water pastry with butter and egg, although I thought hot water crust pastry was more standard for pigeon pie (I guess it doesn't much matter as long as the dough is sturdy).

[u/DeanMachine187]

This whole channel is great, I’ve watched every video lol. Further watching: townsend and son!

[u/ganymedeonolympus]

I love this channel, she is such a good character!

[u/PropagandaOfTheWeed]

a few things - canned truffles are almost flavorless, but still about 15 20 bucks an oz. so that was maybe 60 dollars of truffles in that. the whiskey being just poured in with the stock will never cook off, so thats gonna taste weird. with a pie that thick you will also want to start off with room temperature ingredients and absolutely test the interior temp. I seriously doubt it cooked through properly in 90 minutes. I would start it in a low oven and cook it longer, finishing at higher temp to brown the crust. As i understand it, these pies were made to be used as a bowl more than sliced like a pie like she did, but maybe pigeon pies are different. edit- 90 minutes could be enough if there was a good amount of liquid in there and it was added hot. might really try this im bored out of my mind here.

[u/SeventyFix]

Looks a little sketchy but I would try it.

[u/DancingOnACounter]

Totally forgot about this series. She's very much in character the entire time. Very formal and very British.

I think the same channel has reenactments from other servant characters. Such as the apple boy that is in charge of caring for the orchards and selecting the most perfect apples for the lady and lord of the house.

[u/ShyJalapeno]

Seems like a perfect excuse for doing something with those pesky pigeons which wake you up every day with their incessant cooing

[u/fullanalpanic]

Intriguing overall but I wish they would have left in all of the steps and didn't do the weird non-sequential video cuts in the assembly part. It would have made this video more fit for this subreddit, IMO.

edit: I should mention we definitely need more content like this so I don't mean this in a disparaging way. The cinematography is very enjoyable. I just mean I would also appreciate it if this channel uploaded a version that was start to finish, no big edits, with the pastry being made, the knifework, processing the pigeons, mushrooms, making the eggwash(?), cutting a wedge out of the pie, etc. Assuming they already had the footage.