Battalia pie
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Battalia pie is an English large game pie, or occasionally a fish pie, filled with many small "blessed" pieces, beatilles, of offal, in a gravy made from meat stock flavoured with spices and lemon. Th
Recipe for Battalia Pye from Eliza Smith's The Compleat Housewife, 9th edition, 1739
The Compleat Housewife
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The Compleat Housewife; or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion is a cookery book written by Eliza Smith and first published in London in 1727. It became popular, running through 18 editions in fifty
Frontispiece and title page of 14th edition, 1750
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