Sausage and Mushroom Pie

Ingredients

• 2 oz butter
• 2 onions sliced
• 1 1/2 oz plain flour
• 1/2 lb small button mushrooms
• 1 lb sausages (flavour is up to the individual)
• 1/2 pt milk
• 1/2 pt chicken stock
• 1/2 lb puff pasrty
• 1 egg beaten, or a little milk
• Salt & pepper

Method

1. Make sure the oven is good and hot, pre-heated to about 200°.
2. Put in the sausages on a tray to cook. Remove after about 20 minutes and leave to cool.
3. Add the butter to a saucepan, melt, add the mushrooms and allow to soften over a gentle heat for 1 - 2 minutes.
4. Using a sieve, add flour to the mushrooms. Stir for 1 - 2 minutes.
5. Now and the stock and milk gradually while stirring. Bring to the boil and let simmer for about 3 minutes. Add seasoning to taste.
6. Lightly flour a rolling board. Use it to thinly roll out the pastry. Add the pastry to a deep pie dish.
7. Put the cooked sausages into the dish and pour in the sauce. Then cover with the remaining pastry pressing all the edges neatly together.
8. Brush the pastry with the remaining milk or egg and make a couple of small holes in the top of the pie with a fork.
9. Bake in the oven for about 40 minutes.