MEAT PATTIES
Ingredients
- 40g/1½oz lard
- 40g/1½oz butter
- 175g/6oz plain flour
- pinch of salt
- 1 free-range egg
- beaten with a drop of milk
- 1 small onion
- chopped
- 1 tbsp oil or butter
- 1 thick slice bread
- 125g/4½oz roast beef
- or other cooked meat
- leftover gravy
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Directions
- First make the pastry. Rub the fat into the flour
- or pulse in a food processor
- until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add the salt and mix with enough water to form a dough.
- Wrap the dough in cling film and leave it to rest in the fridge while you make the filling.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the onion for 4-5 minutes
- or until soft
- then leave to cool.
- Blend the bread in a food processor to make breadcrumbs
- then add the meat and onion and pulse until coarsely chopped.
- Tip the mixture into a bowl and add enough gravy to make a soft mixture. Season
- to taste
- with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. Grease a 12-hole patty tin (or fairy cake tin).
- Roll out the pastry and cut 10 large circles for the bases of the pies and 10 smaller circles for the lids.
- Place the larger pastry rounds in greased patty tins and add a heaped teaspoon of filling to each. Dampen the edges of the patties with water and top with the lids
- making sure the edges are well sealed.
- Brush the patties with the beaten egg and pierce a hole in each one to allow the steam to escape. Bake the patties in the preheated oven for 20–30 minutes or until golden-brown.

