Potato Pie

by Hyrum Grant Stephens

Pork chops, sliced ham or lamb chops ( 1 per person)

Potatoes (one medium potato per person served)

1 large onion

salt and pepper to taste

sage to taste

bacon grease or cooking oil

butter or margarine

baking powder biscuit mix or large can of biscuits

Heat frying pan until grease spatters.  Cook chops or ham slices until brown. Set meat aside.  Slice potatoes and onion in about 1/8 inch slices and brown in the frying pan.  When potatoes and onions are brown, add about 1 cup of water to frying pan.  Add salt, pepper and sage.  Simmer until potatoes are done but not soft.  Remove from heat.  Place meat set aside earlier on top of potatoes and roll out biscuit mix and place on top of meat.  Place in hot oven (425ºF) and bake until biscuits are brown on top and not doughy on the bottom.  (about 20 minutes)  Remove from oven and lightly butter the top of the biscuits.

~Jack says, "Sometimes when we went to the canyon, Dad (Grant) would prepare Potato Pie.  Dad's Potato Pie came from the time he was a youth running around the country trying to survive, so the actual meat sometimes varied depending on what he had available.  The old black iron frying pan or the aluminum pan was used as the cooking utensil.