What is Game pie?
{{Infobox food | name = Game pie | image = Game Pie and Chips in Gravy.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = | alternate_name = | country = [[Roman Empire]] | type = [[Meat pie]] | served = | main_ingredient = [[Game (food)|Game]] }} '''Game pie''' is a kind of [[meat]] [[pie]] made with [[Game (food)|game]]. It has been made since [[Roman Empire|Roman times]]. Its main ingredients, then and now, are wild birds and animals such as [[partridge]], [[pheasant]], [[deer]] and [[hare]]. The pies became very [[wikt:elaborate|elaborate]] during the 18th century in [[England]]. They developed complex [[recipe]]s and special [[mould]]s and serving dishes. The versions cooked today are more simple, but they still include [[rabbit]], [[venison]], [[pigeon]], pheasant, and other game meats.<ref>Mark Hix [https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/recipes/game-pie-516603.html Game pie] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925042013/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/recipes/game-pie-516603.html |date=2015-09-25 }}; Serves 4–6 26 November 2005 Independent</ref> The ''Oreiller de la Belle Aurore'' is an elaborate game pie named after Claudine-Aurore Récamier, the mother of [[Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin|Brillat-Savarin]]. The large square pie, which was one of her son's favorite meals, contains a variety of game birds and their [[liver]]s, [[veal]], [[pork]], [[truffle]]s, [[aspic]], and more, in puff pastry. It is described in the classic encyclopedia of [[gastronomy]], the [[Larousse Gastronomique]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Larousse Gastronomique: The Encyclopedia of Food, Wine, and Cookery (English translation of the 1938 edition) |url=https://archive.org/details/laroussegastrono00mont |author=Prosper Montagne |editor=Charlotte Turgeon and Nina Froud |publisher=Crown Publishers |location=New York |year=1961 |ISBN=0-517-50333-6}}</ref> It is one of three pies named after people from Brillat-Savarin's home