Layer Pot-Pie ( Hunter'S)

19 ingredients
12 steps

Ingredients

  • Pie dough:
  • 21/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/4 lb vegetable shortening or lard
  • 1/4 t.s Baking Soda
  • 1/4 t.s. Baking Powder
  • Salt to taste
  • Mix all dry ingredients.
  • Beat 3 eggs together with enough water to produce 1 cup of liquid
  • Pour into the flour mixture. Mix to produce dough. Roll dough as needed
  • Meats:
  • 2 1/2 lbs of pork cut in 3/4 inch cubes
  • 2 1/2 lbs of beef cut in 3/4 inch cubes
  • 2 1/2 lbs of chicken cut 1 inch cubes
  • (any mix of meats; veal, rabbit, deer, moose or partridge as long as the 8 lbs of meat is respected
  • 5-8 strips of bacon to put at the bottom of the pot
  • 1 large onion finely chopped
  • 1 1/2 lbs of potatoes sliced or cubed, to taste
  • Salt & pepper to taste
  • Enough chicken broth to fill pot ( about 3 cups )

Directions

  1. 1
    Mix all the meats with the onion and salt & pepper, let stand for 1 hour in the fridge.
  2. 2
    Layering of pot pie: In a large cooking pot
  3. 3
    Place bacon strip at the bottom of the pot
  4. 4
    Place a thin layer of dough ( 1/4 inch) on top of bacon
  5. 5
    Place a layer of meat on top of dough
  6. 6
    Place a layer of potatoes on top
  7. 7
    Alternating, dough-meat-potato, fill pot with ingredients and finish with a layer of dough. (some will only layer meat and potatoes and finish with only one layer of dough on topless dough.)
  8. 8
    Puncture holes in the top layer and gradually add chicken broth until liquid makes it to UNDER the top layer.
  9. 9
    Put lid on pot
  10. 10
    Place in a pre-heated oven at 350° F, for 1 hour.
  11. 11
    Bring down the heat to 275° F and cook for minimum 5 hours (best for 8 hours)
  12. 12
    Remove lid for last hour of cooking to get a golden brown crust.

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