Pour in the water, and cover with the paste.
Brush over with beaten egg, and decorate with paste leaves.
Make a hole in the middle of the crust for the gases to escape.
Bake for about an hour, attending to directions given for baking beef-steak pie.
Mince Pies.
- Ingredients—Puff and other pastry.
- Mincemeat.
- Castor sugar.
- White of 1 egg.
The Mincemeat.
- Ingredients—1 lb. of suet.
- 1 lb. of apples.
- 1 lb. of sugar.
- 1 lb. of currants.
- 1 lb. of raisins.
- 1 lb. of candied peel.
- The grated rind of 3 lemons.
- ¼ lb. of ratafias soaked in brandy.
Method.—Chop the suet.
Wash and dry the currants.