Steak&Kidney Pie

Recipe Cuisine: Beef
Recipe Category: Beef
Recipe Serves: 1

Recipes Ingredients:

1 Kidney, beef
2 tb Parsley; minced
4 tb Shortening
1 ts Rosemary
2 Onion; chopped
1 ts Oregano
2 lb Round steak; cubed
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1 1/2 tb Worcester sauce
1 c Flour; + 2 t
1/2 ts Salt
1/4 ts Salt
1/2 ts Pepper
1/3 c Shortening
2 tb Butter; softened
2 tb ;water, cold
2 tb Flour

Recipe Instructions:

Wash the kidney, remove membranes and fat, and cut kidney in 1" cubes. Cube the Steak into 1" cubes. Melt the shortening in a heavy pot. Add the onions and cook, stirring often, until well browned. Add the Steak and kidneys. When the Meat is browned on all sides, pour on 2 cups of boiling water, Worcester, salt, and pepper. Cove and cook over a very low heat for 1 1/2 hours, or until the Steak is tender. Preheat the Oven to 400 F. Blend the Butter with the flour to make a beurre manie. Drop small pellets of this paste into the Sauce and stir to thicken it. Put Meat and Sauce into a deep Pie plate and sprinkle with parsley. If you wish to use a pastry topping, roll out the dough and cover the Pie plate. Slash the top, crimp the edges, and bake about 30 minutes, or until well browned. Pastry: Mix the flour and salt. Cut in the shortening with a pastry blender. Combine lightly only until the mixture resembles coarse meal or very tine peas; its texture will not be uniform but will contain crumbs and small bits and pieces. Sprinkle water over the flour mixture, a tablespoon at a time, and mix lightly with a fork, using only enough water so that the pastry will hold together when pressed gently into a ball. --- Fannie Farmer Cookbook