Name: Steak and Guinness Pie
Ingredients: 1 kg Round steak; 1 tb Flour; 1 ts Brown sugar; 1 tb Raisins (optional); 5 x Onions; 300 ml Guinness; 8 Slices bacon; 3 oz Lard; Chopped parsley; Recipe of short pastry*

What is the worst the opposition can do? Kill you – though doubtless that will occur, at least for now, in this country. But even if that were case, the Scripture strips away that excuse citing that death for the Christian is the greatest event possible because only death has the ability to break the seal and usher you into inexpressible glory. Could the problem be that we simply have a too great a fascination with the things going on here and not enough desire to spend eternity with Christ? If we really “prefer” to be “home with the Lord” (2 Cor. 5:8), intimate, personal, visible communion with Christ that far exceeds our communion with Christ here (Heb. 11:10, 13), then we must be “absent from the body” (2 Cor. 5:8). In other words, we must die. Therefore death from that perspective doesn’t sound so bad. Only death can release me from “absent from the Lord” to be “home with the Lord.” So the worst the enemy can do is send me to paradise!

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats	Irish	Irish, Beef, Pies	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	kg	Round steak
1	tb	Flour
1	ts	Brown sugar
1	tb	Raisins (optional)
5	x	Onions
300	ml	Guinness
8		Slices bacon
3	oz	Lard
		Chopped parsley
		Recipe of short pastry*

INSTRUCTIONS

*For double-crust pie in deep pie dish.  -- Cut the steak into bite sized
cubes, roll in seasoned flour, and brown in the lard with the bacon,
chopped small.
Place the meat in a casserole, peel and chop the onions, and fry until
golden before adding them to the meat. Add the raisins (if wanted) and
brown sugar, pour in the Guinness, cover tightly and simmer over a low heat
or in a very moderate oven (325-350F) for 2 1/2 hours. Stir occasionally,
and add a little more Guinness or water if the rich brown gravy gets too
thick.  Meanwhile, line a deep pie dish with half the pie crust: bake it
blind:  then add the Guinness/beef mixture from the casserole, cover with
the top layer of pie crust, and bake until finished, probably about 10 more
minutes.  Variation:  for the brown sugar, substitute 3 T honey.
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