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Pigeon pie with sour green tiger tomato pickle and Cumberland sauce
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Pigeon pie with sour green tiger tomato pickle and Cumberland sauce

27 ingredients 1 hr 4 openrecipes
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1544
Calories
72g
Protein
77g
Fat
137g
Carbs

Counts 19 of 23 ingredients — the other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 19 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Duck 100g cooked with skin 337
Pork 100g cooked 242
Lard 1 tbsp (12.8g) 115
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Orange 1 medium (131g) 62
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Bacon 1 slice cooked (8g) 43
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Celery 1 stalk (40g) 6
Allspice 1 tsp ground (1.9g) 5
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Mustard 1 tsp (5g) yellow 3
Bay Leaf 1 leaf (0.6g) 2
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Redcurrant not in our table 0
Wood not in our table 0
Squab not in our table 0
Water not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 20 small green tiger tomatoes, or other green tomatoes, skinned and sliced
  • sea salt
  • 1 tsp pickling spice
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 225ml/8fl oz good quality white wine vinegar
  • 225g/8oz caster sugar
  • 1 blood or Seville orange
  • 1 Amalfi or regular lemon
  • 4 tbsp good quality ruby port
  • 1 x 2.5cm/1in piece root ginger
  • 4 tbsp redcurrant jelly
  • 1 tsp mustard powder
  • 4 wood pigeons
  • 4 squab pigeons
  • 200g/7oz pork
  • 200g/7oz piece unsmoked streaky bacon
  • 1 tbsp duck fat
  • good pinch allspice
  • good pinch freshly ground black pepper
  • , to taste salt
  • , for greasing butter
  • 800g/1lb 12oz plain flour
  • 10g/½oz table salt
  • 200g/7oz lard
  • 500ml/18fl oz water
  • egg wash, made with beaten free-range egg yolk
  • celery cress, mustard cress

Directions

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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