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
Game pie
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Game pie is a form of meat pie featuring game. The dish dates from Roman times when the main ingredients were wild birds and animals such as partridge, pheasant, deer, and hare. The pies reached their
Battalia pie
…Battalia pie (obsolete spelling battaglia pye) 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…
A still life by Adriaen van Utrecht (1599–1652) showing some of the types of game used in traditional cookery. Note the variety of small birds
Substitutes for bread; – or – right honorables, saving the loaves, and dividing the fishes. By James Gillray
Game pie as served in a cafe in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland