Beefsteak Pie

Original Ingredients

• rump or flank steak
• bone
• water
• half a dozen of cold boiled potatoes
• pie paste
• salt
• pepper
• thinly-sliced onion
• butter
• brown flour
• beaten egg

Original Instructions

1. 1

   Cut up rump or flank steak into strips two inches long and about an inch wide

2. 2

   Stew them with the bone, in just enough water to cover them, until partly cooked

3. 3

   have half a dozen of cold boiled potatoes sliced

4. 4

   Line a baking-dish with pie paste

5. 5

   put in a layer of the meat with salt, pepper, and a little of thinly-sliced onion, then one of the sliced potatoes, with bits of butter dotted over them

6. 6

   Then the steak, alternated with layers of potato, until the dish is full

7. 7

   Add the gravy or broth, having first thickened it with brown flour

8. 8

   Cover with a top crust, making a slit in the middle

9. 9

   brush a little beaten egg over it, and bake until quite brown