When I speak of “means,” I have in view Bible-reading, private prayer, regular attendance on public worship, regular hearing of God’s Word, and regular reception of the Lord’s Supper. I lay it down as a simple matter of fact, that no one who is careless about such things must ever expect to make much progress in sanctification. I can find no record of any eminent saint who ever neglected them. They are appointed channels through which the Holy Spirit conveys fresh supplies of grace to the soul, and strengthens the work which He has begun in the inward man. Let men call this legal doctrine if they please, but I will never shrink from declaring my belief that there are no “spiritual gains without pains”… Our God is a God who works by means, and He will never bless the soul of that man who pretends to be so high and spiritual that he can get on without them.

J.C. Ryle

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Main dish	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

		Short crust pastry
3		Young partridges
6		Quail
12		Larks
		Bacon
		Boned thrushes and other
		Small birds
1		Egg yolk

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Make a firm short crust using some eggs with the water to mix the flour
and a little salt; but no sugar. 2. Roll it out but not to thin, and with
it line a tin pie mould that opens and is kept closed with a metal skewer.
3. Put in the middle of the pie 3 young partridges (boned) and 4. round
them put 6 fine quail boned and stuffed. 5. Round these put 12 larks,
boned. 6. Cut a little bacon and dice and sprinkle them into the pie. 7.
Put in some sour grapes and a very little salt. 8. And fill up with boned
thrushes ans other small birds. 9. Put in neither spice, nor cheese nor
water. 10. Ornament the top crust; make a hole in the middle; brush it over
with yolk of an egg, and bake in a very moderate oven for several hours
according to size.  Meantime make some good clear nicely flavoured game
stock that will be a firm jelly when cold; strain it, and directly the pie
comes from the oven pour it, hot, into the pie by means of a funnel placed
in the hole in the middle of the lid.
NB - This pie may be eaten hot or cold.  For a ball supper it will of
course be eaten cold.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #268 by Matt <mdj@cableinet.co.uk> on Oct
04, 1997

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