Beef Cheek and Stout Pie with Stilton Pastry | Saveur

Ingredients

• 6 oz. Stilton, or any strong blue cheese, crumbled
• 2 2⁄3 cups flour, plus more for dusting
• 6 tbsp. unsalted butter, cubed and chilled
• 1⁄2 tsp. kosher salt
• 1⁄2 cup ice-cold water
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1⁄2 cup olive oil
• 5 lb. beef cheeks or brisket, trimmed and halved
• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• 3 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
• 3 large yellow onions, 1 roughly chopped, 2 thinly sliced
• 2 carrots, roughly chopped
• 2 stalks celery, roughly chopped
• 16 oz. stout beer
• 3 cups beef stock
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 sprig rosemary
• 1 sprig thyme
• 1 cup Worcestershire sauce