Pie made of squabs—i.e. young pigeons; also a pie made of mutton, apples, and onions.
“Cornwall squab-pie, and Devon white-pot brings,
And Leicester beans and bacon, fit for kings.”
King: Art of Cookery.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.