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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  North American >> Canadian >> Canadian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Meat. | 2. Combine pork, veal, salt, pepper and onion in large saucepan. Mix well. Add water and bay leaf. Bring to a slow boil and simmer on Medium-Low for about 1 hour until meat is cooked. Remove bay leaf. | 3. Makes 4 (9") or 3 (deep dish) pies. | 4. Pie Crust:Flaky and easy to make tourtiere crust. | 5. Pour half the flour, half the salt in bowl of processor. Add half the lard and pulse till mixture is crumbly. | 6. Gradually add half the water, approximately, and pulse till mixture leaves the side of the bowl STOPPING before it forms a ball. | 7. Shape dough in 4 flat disks. Repeat with remaining ingredients. | 8. Makes double crust for 4 (9") or 3 (deep dish) pies. | 9. Tips: | 10. Cool meat at least one hour before filling crust. | 11. Add meat juices sparingly when filling pie to avoid soggy bottom crust. | 12. Freeze meat pies individually before double wrapping in foil. | 13. Baking. | 14. If you froze them in foil plates, transfer frozen pie to metal or Pyrex pie plate and bake at preheated oven 375* for 1½ hours (bottom shelf in oven). | 15. Tip: | 16. Extra meat simmered with cubed potatoes make for the evening meal on baking day, a ritual when I was growing up and a tradition with our boys. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
pork	2	lbs	ground lean	3411.072	0.0	126.1915	318.155
veal	2	lbs	ground	1214.9361	12.6934	196.7471	41.9788
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
pepper	1/2	teaspoon		2.8865	0.7354	0.1195	0.0375
onion	1		chopped	44.0	10.274000000000001	1.21	0.11
bay leaf	1			-	-	-	-
water	1	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
lard	1	lb	cold-cubed	4091.408	0.0	0.0	453.5929
flour	6	cups		3469.68	759.6324	56.406000000000006	13.4616
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
cold water	1	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.