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** Featured Recipe **

Latticed Beef Pie

Ingredients

• 12 oz Shortcrust Pastry
• 1 oz Lard
• 1 large Onion (peeled and finely chopped)
• 1 lb raw Minced Beef
• 6 oz Mushrooms (cleaned and sliced)
• 6 tbsp Tomato Ketchup
• ¼ pt Water
• 1 rounded tbsp Cornflour
• ½ level tsp Garlic Salt or Garlic Puree (optional)
• Salt & Pepper Seasoning
• 2 large Tomatoes (skinned and sliced)
• beaten Egg for brushing

Method

1. Line an 8" or 9" shallow ovenproof dish with the pastry, reserving the trimmings for pasty lattice topping.
2. Heat the lard in a large heavy based pan and fry the onions until golden.
3. Add the minced meat and mushrooms and fry until well browned, breaking up the meat with a fork as it cooks.
4. Remove from the heat and stir in the ketchup, garlic salt/puree, water and cornflour. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
5. Put the meat mixture into the pastry base and top with the sliced tomatoes.
6. Roll out the reserved pastry and cut into thin strips, forming a pastry lattice top on the pie. Brush with beaten egg.
7. Bake in preheated oven at 190°C for about 45 minutes.

Serve as you like, hot or cold, with mashed potatoes and vegetables, salad or chips!

About the Recipes

Having recently re-discovered a recipe booklet that was put together in 1998, I decided it would be nice to preserve the collection of recipes and the story behind its existence by creating this website, with the intention of enabling everyone to enjoy the recipes... and to add their own favourites!

The 'Foreword' inside the original booklet reads as follows:

"The idea of this recipe book is a simple and fun way for the residents and friends of the Hawsker area to help raise much needed cash towards funding for the Hawsker with Stainsacre School and Church Millennium Project.

The Project is an imaginative scheme to adapt the nave of Hawsker All Saints Church into a multi-purpose area for music, arts, dance, exhibitions and other activities. The main users of this facility will be the schools itself, although members of the community will also have the advantage of its availability for exhibitions, etc. Hawsker School, built in 1867, has never had a hall area where all pupils can congregate together for such activities as those for which these adaptations will allow.

All those involved in organising the project would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has made a contribution to this book and participated in other activities and events aimed at fund raising. Dated: December 1998."

If you have a recipe that you would like to add to the collection, please feel free to send it to me.