This section is from the book "Soyer's Standard Cookery", by Nicolas Soyer. Also available from Amazon: Soyer's Standard Cookery.
Make a paste in the ordinary way. Prepare the meat as usual, and put in the middle of the paste, which should be rolled to the thickness of about an eighth of an inch. Moisten the four corners and fold to cover the meat. Place in the paper bag, seal up, put on grid in a moderate oven (300 Fahr.).
For one pound pie allow forty-live minutes; three pounds, one hour; six pounds, one and a half hours; ten pounds, two hours.
 
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