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Humble Pie Recipe

	Huxter / All my dishes 4 months, 3 weeks ago Humbles are deer entrails and when venison was the sole preserve of the English aristocracy ,the poor peasants were given the entrails ,the guts or whatever you call the nasty bits !! Prep:30m Cook:45m Servings:8	Huxter
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Ingredients

Entrails of a deer -stomach .washed intestine ,liver ,etc

Beef suet to the same weight as the deer entrails

10 cloves

tsp mace

tsp nutmeg

tsp cinammon

pinch salt

4 pounds of currants

half a pound of candy'd orange,lemon and citron peel

half a pound of dates

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Directions

Parboil the Humbles of a Deer

Take all the Fat off them

Add the Beef Suet and mince it very small together

Season it with Cloves,Mace ,Nutmeg ,and a little Cinammon and Salt

Put some Currants,Candy's and Dates ,stoned and sliced

Fill your Pye and lid it

When baked put in some Sack and serve it

This ancient recipe is from Castle Howard in Yorkshire and is the inspiration for the saying "to eat humble pie " as only the peasants ate this pie ,the better meat being saved for the aristocrats .It was written down in 1734 .

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Comments

huxter 4 months, 3 weeks ago said:
I was able to buy a book from Castle Howard in Yorkshire ,England which was a collection of ancient recipes used there over 250 years ago .It includes recipes for badger ,frogs ,viper ,roasred song birds ,mock turtle,calves head ,calves heel and neat's feet .There were recipes for more normal dishes like roast beef and sheep ,and leek soup but they couldn't compare with Humble Pie !!! By the way ,Sack was a dry sherry-type wine imported from Spain --when England weren't at war with them .

sandygalesmith 4 months, 3 weeks ago said:
I may know some one that may like this.Thank you 4 the this post.

karlyn255 4 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Not my cut of tea but would try if someone made it. actually know people to pass this on to. Thanks. how about some more of those recipes fromthat book. frogs are abound here and would love a turtle recipe.

jett2whit 4 months, 3 weeks ago said:
I guess this is similar to what southerner's call "Chittlins" .... and I still don't eat 'em! LOL

grizzlybear 4 months, 3 weeks ago said:
;-) Interseting..but with that many cloves I am sure the taste was hidden.and they never had a tooth ache....hahahaha

I have a friend that might actually try this but I will make sure I am not there when he makes it otherwise i will have to try it...LOL

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huxter 4 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Thanks for the comments and I will post some more including the frog recipe ---maybe Granny Clampett was the inheritor of this cookbook !! lol

debbie919 4 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Very interesting story - love hearing where old familiar sayings come from...and I also never knew deer innards were called Humbles...too cool, thanks for posting! ^5
Deb

juels 4 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Very unique! Thanks for sharing such unusual recipes!

trencherwoman 2 months, 3 weeks ago said:
I would strongly dispute that "Humble Pie" as made to this recipe was eaten by peasants. In those days ingredients such as cloves, mace, nutmeg, cinammon, currants, candied orange,lemon and citron peel and dates were imported from far countries at huge expense and were affordable only by the very wealthy. To suggest that peasants might have eaten them is like suggesting welfare recipients today eat Kobe beef, Perigord truffles, Beluga caviar and hand-picked saffron.
The recipe looks good, though.

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