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British Pie Week!
on: March 03, 2020, 10:42:49 PM
Hey!

I was looking at the MTo Calendar and realized that we are in the middle of British Pie Week!

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Apparenty Britishers like pie. Not good pie like apple or pecan pie, British pie often involves suet and kidneys or sheep's bits. But at least it's pie!  :2tu:

If ever there were an excuse to make a pie, this is it. I'm going to do some research and make a pie, maybe even a British-style pie. In the meantime, what is your favorite pie?

And make a pie and post a pic.


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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #1 on: March 03, 2020, 10:44:49 PM
From BBC:

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It's British Pie Week!

This week the UK is celebrating a British classic which fills many people with joy - the pie!

Around 75% of the British population eat a pie at least once a month, and the pie-making industry is worth £1.2 billion a year in the UK alone.

Historians think the pie's origin can be traced back to ancient Egypt, where a recipe for chicken pie was discovered carved into a tablet around 2,000 BC.

From there the Ancient Greeks picked up a recipe for pastry, then the Romans joined in and started wrapping meat in pastry.


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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #2 on: March 03, 2020, 10:51:40 PM
Before I stopped eating dead animals I was quite fond of that English staple pork pies.
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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #3 on: March 03, 2020, 11:19:10 PM
Pork pies are good.   :tu:


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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #4 on: March 03, 2020, 11:20:15 PM
'Nother veggie here but pork pies and steak and kidney pies were a favourite back then.

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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #5 on: March 03, 2020, 11:22:43 PM
Shepard's pie was my favourite.

Now it's fruit crumble.
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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #6 on: March 03, 2020, 11:26:49 PM
They're not really pies though pabs are they?

Not like Mrs Miggins pies from her pie shoppe or 'Cut Me Own Throat Dibblers' Pies with personalities.
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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #7 on: March 03, 2020, 11:31:07 PM
Pork pies are good.   :tu:

That they are. And now I'm hungry  (again)
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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #8 on: March 03, 2020, 11:33:10 PM
Shepard's pie was my favourite.

Now it's fruit crumble.

Why are they called shepherds pie when the main ingredient is beef?  And there's no pastry as Mags pointed out. Has to be pastry.
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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #9 on: March 03, 2020, 11:36:18 PM
Shepard's pie was my favourite.

Now it's fruit crumble.

Try eating that at the football... while holding your bovril.


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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #10 on: March 03, 2020, 11:36:30 PM
Why are they called shepherds pie when the main ingredient is beef?  And there's no pastry as Mags pointed out. Has to be pastry.
Maybe to deter shepherds from eating the flock.

I'm hungry too now.
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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #11 on: March 03, 2020, 11:38:40 PM
Why are they called shepherds pie when the main ingredient is beef? And there's no pastry as Mags pointed out. Has to be pastry.

Shepherd's pie is traditionally made with leftover lamb. Cottage pie is beef.



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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #12 on: March 03, 2020, 11:39:10 PM
Try eating that at the football... while holding your bovril.
Bovril at the football  :dd: Used to get beef tea out of the vending machine after swimming too.

Maybe I'm not cut out to be vegetarian.......
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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #13 on: March 03, 2020, 11:40:17 PM
Steak and kidney pie
Steak and ale pie
Shepherds pie
Cottage pie
Game pie
Pork pie

All good!  :tu:

I do make a decent fish pie. Cod, smoked haddock, and prawns, in a white wine sauce with broccoli florets, with a rosti topping and finished off with some mature cheddar. Serve with minted peas.

Alternatively, whack a Fray Bentos in the oven with some chunky chips.  :D


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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #14 on: March 03, 2020, 11:40:46 PM
Bovril at the football  :dd: Used to get beef tea out of the vending machine after swimming too.

Maybe I'm not cut out to be vegetarian.......

Mmmmm... cow juice...  :dd:


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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #15 on: March 03, 2020, 11:41:00 PM
Nix you should try eel pie. That will test your admiration for the great british pie.
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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #16 on: March 03, 2020, 11:41:42 PM
Mmmmm... cow juice...  :dd:
hot cow juice. Mmmmmmmmmm
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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #17 on: March 03, 2020, 11:43:12 PM
They're not really pies though pabs are they?

Not like Mrs Miggins pies from her pie shoppe or 'Cut Me Own Throat Dibblers' Pies with personalities.
CMOT's pie are not my thing. Who's fingernail is that?! just ordered Guards! Guards! for my sister to read.

And now that I think about, meat & pastry pies aren't either. :facepalm:

Shepherd's pie is traditionally made with leftover lamb. Cottage pie is beef.

Oh, yeah, that's the one I was thinking of. Ingredients that are 99% produced in Ireland!  :cheers:

The logic of food naming is odd....
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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #18 on: March 03, 2020, 11:44:15 PM
hot cow juice. Mmmmmmmmmm

Mmmmm... frothy hot cow juice... like a bovine cappuccino... mmmmm...


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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #19 on: March 03, 2020, 11:44:26 PM
Bovril at the football  :dd: Used to get beef tea out of the vending machine after swimming too.

Maybe I'm not cut out to be vegetarian.......
beef tea?!?!
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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #20 on: March 03, 2020, 11:46:37 PM
beef tea?!?!

Yeah... milk, two sugars...


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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #21 on: March 03, 2020, 11:48:07 PM
Yeah... milk, two sugars...
:to: :surrender:

(Nice avatar change btw. Stay cool!)
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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #22 on: March 03, 2020, 11:50:02 PM
beef tea?!?!
Yep. That was the 70's. Get out the pool full of plasters and enough chlorine to turn your eyes red. Have a towel fight with Darren Mattinglys gang while holding onto your duffle bag for dear life so they don't steal all your clothes and once you're dressed in your brown flares brown jumper and monkey boots treat yourself to some monster munch and a cup of hot beef tea.
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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #23 on: March 03, 2020, 11:51:05 PM
Yep. That was the 70's. Get out the pool full of plasters and enough chlorine to turn your eyes red. Have a towel fight with Darren Mattinglys gang while holding onto your duffle bag for dear life so they don't steal all your clothes and once you're dressed in your brown flares brown jumper and monkey boots treat yourself to some monster munch and a cup of hot beef tea.
Totally alien.
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Reply #24 on: March 03, 2020, 11:52:44 PM
:to: :surrender:

(Nice avatar change btw. Stay cool!)

Yeah thanks, need to change the love hearts to little virus thingys though.

Edit: Sorted.
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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #25 on: March 04, 2020, 12:28:38 AM
The avatar update looks grand, but......ya can't eat pie with a face mask.....just sayin'....


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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #26 on: March 04, 2020, 12:30:49 AM
Bovril at the football  :dd: Used to get beef tea out of the vending machine after swimming too.

Maybe I'm not cut out to be vegetarian.......

Come back to the dark side, mags.

We have cheeseburgers......  >:D


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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #27 on: March 04, 2020, 12:56:44 AM
Bovril at the football  :dd: Used to get beef tea out of the vending machine after swimming too.

Maybe I'm not cut out to be vegetarian.......

Spinach pie!  (if you still eat eggs).  One of my favorites when I was a kid.

I'd like to try pork pie someday.

I learned recently that the "pastry" of original meat pies was just flour and water.. not meant to be eaten.  Rather it was the cooking vessel and the transport container all in one. 

I like foods wrapped in pastry that are easily portable.   :drool:


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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #28 on: March 04, 2020, 07:33:11 AM
Spinach pie!  (if you still eat eggs).  One of my favorites when I was a kid.

I'd like to try pork pie someday.

I learned recently that the "pastry" of original meat pies was just flour and water.. not meant to be eaten.  Rather it was the cooking vessel and the transport container all in one. 

I like foods wrapped in pastry that are easily portable.   :drool:
Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie.... Don't eat that pastry they were sitting on top of!
Hooked, like everyone else. ;)

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Re: British Pie Week!
Reply #29 on: March 04, 2020, 08:25:49 AM
Before I stopped eating dead animals
'Nother veggie here
I had no idea you chaps were vegos.
I've been one for twenty-something years.


 

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