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
Hannah Glasse
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Hannah Glasse was an English cookery writer. Her first book, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, published in 1747, became the best-selling recipe book that century. It was reprinted within its fi
Glasse's signature at the top of the first chapter of her book, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, 6th Edition, 1758
St Andrews, Holborn, where Glasse was christened
The 1770 edition
The 1828 edition