Humble Pie Recipe

Humble Pie

From huxter 14 years ago

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45 minutes to make
Serves 8

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 !!

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- 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
- pastry
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Ingredients

Entrails of a deer -stomach .washed intestine ,liver ,etc shopping list
beef suet to the same weight as the deer entrails shopping list
10 cloves shopping list
tsp mace shopping list
tsp nutmeg shopping list
tsp cinammon shopping list
pinch salt shopping list
4 pounds of currants shopping list
half a pound of candy'd orange,lemon and citron peel shopping list
half a pound of dates shopping list
pastry shopping list

How to make it

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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noola Peterborough, Canada
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karlyn255 Ypsilanti, MI
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huxter Mundoona, Australia
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dairine 14 years ago
I found "umble pie" in a 1591 cookbook "A Book of Cookrye" which is available online for free (just google it). It is nearly the same but uses Claret instead of Sack. Here is the recipe:
To bake the Umbles of a Deere.
Mince them very small with Suet, and season them with Pepper, a little Ginger, a little Sinamon and Corance, and out into your paste, and when your pye is baked, put to it two spoonfuls of Claret wine, and shake it well togither.
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trencherwoman 14 years ago
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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juels ate it and said...
Very unique! Thanks for sharing such unusual recipes!
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debbie919 ate it and 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
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huxter 14 years ago
Thanks for the comments and I will post some more including the frog recipe ---maybe Granny Clampett was the inheritor of this cookbook !! lol
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grizzlybear ate it and 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

5 for interesting
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jett2whit 14 years ago
I guess this is similar to what southerner's call "Chittlins" .... and I still don't eat 'em! LOL
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karlyn255 ate it and 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.
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sandygalesmith 14 years ago
I may know some one that may like this.Thank you 4 the this post.
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huxter 14 years ago
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 .
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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.

karlyn255 in Ypsilanti loved it
;-) 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 ...more

grizzlybear in loved it
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

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