_Cream of Barley Soup
English Chicken Pie
Broiled Tomatoes
Cucumber Salad with Red Peppers
Biscuits
Cheese
Coffee_
_*English Chicken Pie_--1 chicken, 1/2 pound veal fillet, 4 ounces
bacon, 3 hard-cooked eggs, 1/4 pound mushrooms, 2 tablespoons Crisco,
pepper and salt to taste, chopped parsley, puff-pastry, stock, and 1
egg.
Cut fowl into small joints, season these with salt and pepper. Slice
veal thinly, line bottom of fireproof dish with this, place on top a
layer of chicken. Chop mushrooms finely, saute them in Crisco in small
stewpan; sprinkle half of this over pieces of chicken, then layer of
hard-cooked eggs, over that thin slices bacon and chopped parsley.
Continue in this way until all ingredients are used up and the
fireproof dish is full; fill dish three parts full with stock. Put a
strip of pastry round the edge of dish, wet this lightly with water,
cover the pie with puff-pastry rolled out to the proper size and
thickness; press down the paste on to the wet edge of paste, trim
round. Decorate the paste at the edge according to taste; brush over
pie with beaten egg, make a slit in the center of the lid, and place
a circle of pastry leaves round it. Put pie in moderate oven, and bake
about 1-1/2 hours. Pour in a little stock before serving.