Chicken And Leek Pie – We Love God!

It is one of the most dangerous diseases of professors, and one of the greatest scandals of this age, that persons taken for eminently religious are more impatient of plain, though just, reproof than many a drunkard, swearer, or fornicator; and when they have spent hours or days in the seeming earnest confession of their sin, and lament before God and man that they cannot do it with more grief and tears, yet they take it for a heinous injury in another that will say half so much against them, and take him for a malignant enemy of the godly who will call them as they call themselves.

Richard Baxter

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Dairy			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

6	oz	Shortcrust pastry
		Chicken, about 4 lb*
4		Slices ham steak
4		Large leeks
		cleaned/chopped
		Onion
		Salt and pepper
1	pn	Ground mace or nutmeg
300		Chicken stock
125		Double cream

INSTRUCTIONS

1998    
Jointed, chopped and boned.  Make the pastry and leave it in a cold
place to rest. Meanwhile  prepare the pie.  IN a deep 1 - 1 1/2 quart
dish, place layers of the chicken, the ham,  leeks and onion or
shallot, adding the mace, nutmeg and seasoning,  then repeating the
layers until the dish is full. Add the stock, then  dampen the edges of
the dish before rolling out the pastry to the  required size. Place the
pastry over the pie and press the edges down  well. Crimp them with a
fork. Make a small hole in the center. Roll  out the scraps of pastry
and form a leaf or rosette for the top.  Place this very lightly over
the small hole. Brush the pastry with  milk, and bake at moderate heat,
350F, for 25-30 minutes. Cover the  pastry with damp greaseproof paper
when partially cooked if the top  seems to be getting too brown. Gently
heat the  cream. When pie is cooked, remove from oven. Carefully lift
off the  rosette and pour the cream in through the hole. Put back the
rosette  and serve. (This pie forms a delicious soft jelly when cold.)
Servings: 4  Posted to recipelu-digest by Sandy <sandysno@pctech.net>
on Mar 17,

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 134 Calories From Fat: 45 Total Fat: 4.8g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 2566.6mg Potassium: 721.3mg Carbohydrates: 3.2g Fiber: 0g Sugar: 2.4g Protein: 16.9g

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