Rappie Pie

It is a chicken and potato dish
and here you can buy the bags of potatoes already grated. to form the crust and save a lot of work...but here is the original

Rappie Pie

Ingredients:

1 medium-sized chicken
3 large onions, chopped
12 potatoes
salt and pepper

1/2 pd/250 g bacon, cut into small pieces
1/2 tsp-1 tsp dried savory, or to taste

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F/180 degrees C.
2. Cut chicken into large pieces. Place in pot with just enough water to completely cover. Add onions and simmer until chicken is tender.
3. Remove chicken from the pot, reserving the broth. Remove meat from the bones. Cut meat into smaller, bite-sized pieces.
4. Grate potatoes. Place grated potatoes in cotton bag and squeeze vigorously to extract all the water. The goal is to get rid of as much starch as possible by squeezing out all the water.
5. Bring the reserved chicken broth to a boil. Scald the grated, de-starched potatoes in an amount of broth equal to approximately 2/3 of the water you extracted from the potatoes. Blend the broth with the potatoes and season with salt and pepper.
6. In heavy pot, sauté half of the bacon. Add half of the potato mixture. Spoon into greased rectangular baking pan. Add the chicken, sprinkle over with savory, then top with remaining potato mixture. Place remaining bacon on top.
7. Bake for 1-1/2 hours, or until top is uniformly brown.