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From 1 to 7 March is British Pie Week so what better time to celebrate the genius that is is huge pastry pillows and debate the merits of steak and kidney over chicken and mushroom?!
What is a pie?
started by slowdog (22 February 2008)
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22 February 2008
This is a subject of much debate at my office.
Some say that a pie absolutely has to be savoury; others refer to apple pies and damn good cherry pies as good examples of non-savoury pie-ness.
Does a pie have to be encased in pastry? How does that account for shepherd’s pie or cottage pie?
And finally, does a pie have to possess a lid? Actually, I don’t think you can argue about this one. Surely it’s more of a tart without some cover on it?
Anyway - how do you define a pie?
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23 February 2008
It has to have a lid. It has to be savoury! Cottage pie is not a pie!
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24 February 2008
Well I think that a pie can be sweet or savoury and in the case of the latter it should at least have a lid.But with the former the base can either made the conventional way with flour and butter or the French way with digestive biscuits and a mixture of nuts like almonds,hazlenuts,walnuts etc etc
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24 February 2008
The dictionary reckons it can be sweet or savoury…lid not necessary, but some pastry has to be involved…unless its a cake version of a pie…that’s got to be an American thing surely?
1) a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust: apple pie; meat pie.
2) a layer cake with a filling of custard, cream jelly, or the like: chocolate cream pie
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25 February 2008
If we’re not careful we’re going to get on to the whole Jaffa cake/biscuit argument soon.
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26 February 2008
Oh dear lets not go down that route…Although American Pie was not about meat based dishes…well maybe…
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26 February 2008
No I think that the British one is the best-surely some-one in the dark ages must have had the ingenuity to invent it.
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26 February 2008
along the lines of “does it have to have a lid?”, pies also have to have a pastry base. I always feel completely cheated when some henceforth-to-be-known-as “skanky” pub serves up a steak pie that consists of a ceramic bowl covered with a piece of puff-pastry.
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2 March 2008
Jaffa cakes are biscuits.
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2 March 2008
Jaffa cakes are biscuits. Mark, my partner likes pork pies!!
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