Name: Tourte De Noel
Ingredients: 2 lb Very lean pork; finely diced (up to 3); 4 sm Onions; chopped; 4 Cooked potatoes; diced; 1 1/2 ts Sage (up to 2); 1 tb Savory; 1 tb Salt; Yes, tablespoon!; 1/2 ts Pepper; 2 tb Butter; 3 tb Flour; 4 tb Butter; 4 tb Lard; 1 Egg; well beaten; 1/4 ts Salt; 1/2 ts Savory; 2 c All-purpose flour; 6 tb Ice water (up to 8)

It is never said in so many words that we are to give 10% in the NT, though it is worth pointing out that the tithe was not original to Moses and the Mosaic law. It is found early in the life of God’s people. Abraham paid a tithe to Melchizedek in Gen. 14, if you remember. There is some case there for arguing that the tithe is basic to human life as God ordered it. But, if you are not persuaded of that, remember that if the 10th is not our rule any longer, surely in the NT we are not going to argue that we should give less! We are not going to argue that having seen the Lord on the cross, having witnessed the resurrection, knowing as we now do what price was paid for our redemption, we should give less than they did in the OT? Surely not. Jesus, remember, makes a point of calling attention to the generous gift of a poor woman when she was worshipping at the temple and Paul makes a good deal of the sacrificial financial stewardship required of Christian believers. Now, perhaps we like the tithe after all!

Robert Rayburn

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Eggs	Canadian	Pies & past, Pork & ham, Sent to tnt	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	lb	Very lean pork; finely diced (up to 3)
4	sm	Onions; chopped
4		Cooked potatoes; diced
1 1/2	ts	Sage (up to 2)
1	tb	Savory
1	tb	Salt; Yes, tablespoon!
1/2	ts	Pepper
2	tb	Butter
3	tb	Flour
4	tb	Butter
4	tb	Lard
1		Egg; well beaten
1/4	ts	Salt
1/2	ts	Savory
2	c	All-purpose flour
6	tb	Ice water (up to 8)

INSTRUCTIONS

PASTRY
Place the meat and onion in saucepan, with just enough water to barely
cover the meat. Cover and simmer 1 hour. Add the cooked potatoes, sage,
savory, salt and pepper. Simmer together 20 minutes.
Make a ball of the butter and flour. Add to meat juice and cook until sauce
is creamy. Taste for seasoning, then cool. Pour into pastry-lined baking
dish and cover with top crust. Bake at 400 degrees F until golden brown.
This tourte also freezes well.
Pastry: Cream together the butter and the lard. Stir in the eggs, salt and
sage. Mix well and work in the flour with your hands. Sprinkle half the
water on top and blend; then add the rest of the water, enough to make the
dough cling together. Do not overwork the pastry nor make it too wet. Roll
out as thinly as possible on a floured board and line the bottom and sides
of a round baking dish. Refrigerate until ready to use.
NOTES : The pastry for the tourte is very special, and different from the
tourtiere type. It is rich, flaky, light and always flavored with savory.
In the old days, wild savory was gathered in the autumn and hung on the
kitchen rafters to dry until Christmas. The tourte is quite different from
the tourtiere.
Recipe by: The Canadiana Cookbook/Mme Jehane Benoit/1970 Posted to TNT -
Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter  by Bill & Leilani Devries
<devriesb@cyberbeach.net> on Aug 28, 1997

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