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Potato Pie

INGREDIENTS for dish for 3 persons.-1 lb. tin of roast mutton, 2 lbs. of potatoes, 2 oz. of butter, 2 onions, a little sauce, milk, seasoning, bread-crumbs.

AVERAGE COST, 1s. 3d.

Turn out the meat from the tin, taking off most of the fat, then boil and mash the potatoes with a little milk and butter; then slice the onions, and fry them in the mutton fat. Butter a pie-dish, line it with the potatoes, next a layer of mutton, cut in small pieces and well seasoned, then a few onions, and so on till the dish is full, scattering a few bread-crumbs and small pieces over the top, and bake.

TIME.-20 minutes to bake.

SEASONABLE at any time.

Potato Pie. (Vegetarian Recipe.)- INGREDIENTS for pie for 2 or 3 persons.- 1 lb. of potatoes, a small stick of celery, 1. onion, 1 oz. of sago, 1 oz. of butter, paste to cover the pie, a littte milk. AVERAGE COST, 7d.

Fry the onion in a little butter, and fill a pie-dish with it and the celery, and potatoes sliced, strewing in between the layers the sago and seasoning of pepper and salt. Fill up the dish with milk, and cover with a paste; then bake in 2 good paste; then bake in a good oven for an hour.

TIME.-1 hour to bake.

SEASONABLE at any time.

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