Pork Pie(New Year'S Kreatopita) - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    2 1/2 lb. pork loin, boned and ground once
    2 small onions, grated
    3/4 lb. butter
    1 lb. pastry sheets
    5 eggs
    1/2 c. water
    1 Tbsp. Minute tapioca
    salt and pepper to taste
Preparation
    Place 1/4 pound butter, ground pork and onions in pan and brown.
    Add water; continue to simmer for 45 minutes.
    Set meat mixture aside to cool.
    Beat the eggs slightly; add tapioca.
    Mix well and fold into meat mixture.
    Place 5 pastry sheets, buttering each, on bottom of 9 x 13-inch pan.
    Cover with 1/2 of meat mixture; top with 5 more buttered pastry sheets.
    Spread remaining meat mixture.
    Sterilize \"good luck coin\" (a quarter or fifty-cent piece) and place among pastry sheets.
    Place 5 buttered pastry sheets over last layer of meat mixture; pour remaining butter over entire \"kreatopita.\"

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