MEAT PIE WITH POTATO CRUST

Meat Pie with Potato Crust image

Provided by Cathy Gillespie @circlemoon8

Categories Beef

Number Of Ingredients 13

- cold roast beef, trimmed, cut into thin slices
- cold water
1 - onion, sliced
1 - carrot, sliced
1 stalk(s) celery, sliced
- salt and pepper
POTATO CRUST
2 cup(s) flour
1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
2 teaspoon(s) baking powder
1/2 cup(s) shortening
1 cup(s) cold mash potatoes
- milk

Steps:

Add beef with meat trimmings and bones in stock pot with cover with cold water; add onion, carrot and celery. Let simmer several hours; strain off broth, reserving. Remove beef slices and return to stock pot and add reserved broth; simmer until the beef is tender. Season with salt and pepper. Pour into a baking dish; cover with a round of potato crust in which there is an opening; bake until the crust is done, 15 minutes.
Potato crust: Sift together flour, salt and baking powder. With the tips of your fingers work in shortening, then the mashed potatoes; add enough milk to make a soft dough, turn on to the board, handling as little as possible and pat and roll out to fit the dish.

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