and delicious dish  using mutton and apples.

For this recipe you will need:

apples

onion

mutton

butter

puff pastry

fat

some stock

and for seasoning, salt

and pepper

The flavour of onion isn't much liked  by the family as it's generally felt  

it encourages bad breath and bloating.  However, a little bit of well-cooked  

onion works really well in this pie  so i'm using half an onion. 

Sylvia has already peeled and cored the apples  so now i'm going to slice them evenly.

Squab means pigeon...

there isn't any pigeon in this pie.

And I don't know why it's called 'Devonshire' either

although coming from Devonshire I can tell you there are plenty of apples.

There are also quite a lot of sheep.

I'm now going to brown off the meat.

Mutton is one of my favorite meats. Some  people think it's far superior to lamb.

Mutton is leaner and more flavoursome  

and it takes on spice and  strong flavours really well.

It is ideal for slow cooking, depending on your cut.

I've read that the Queen loves mutton, and she favours sheep that are over 10 years.

Now I've lined my dish with butter, I need to layer in the ingredients.

Mutton first

and now half the onions

the apples

I'm going to highly season  this dish with salt and pepper.

And now to start again with the layering.

I'll now add my stock

Now this needs to go into an  oven for an hour and a half  

I need to cover it. I might save on my paper and use this salt paste.

Obviously I'm not going to  serve it with this salt crust  

so I shall just remove it

As this dish is for the family, I  shall layer on now some puff pastry  

to elevate it to the right kind of dish. But first I shall place in my pie funnel 

as when it's cooking this  will help the steam escape  

and mean the mixture can boil nicely.

I'm going to cover it with this egg wash of egg, salt, and a little milk.

And now I'm going to decorate it to truly  

make it suitable for the family's table.

I'm going to brush some of the egg wash on only some of the pastry  

to give it an effect.

And now it needs to go back  into the oven for 20 minutes.

This is a fairly plain dish, suitable  for the family at supper or luncheon.  

I wouldn't serve it to their guests, unless  they were very well known by the family.

There you are - Devonshire Squab Pie.