It's been brought to our attention that it's British Pie Week! So we wanted to do a very scientific poll to see which is the most popular on Gransnet? Home-made, store bought, sweet, savoury? Beef and stilton, chicken and ham, spinach and feta? Lemon meringue, apple and pear? Post below and tell us. If you're looking for inspiration, we've got a few delicious recipes here.
My chicken, leek and mushroom pie topped with puff pastry.
Left over cooked chicken, home grown leeks, chestnut mushrooms, tin of condensed mushroom soup and block of ready made puff pastry and egg wash. There's always some pastry left over - that always becomes some mini eccles cakes.
Just added the pastry to the on line delivery for tomorrow
I make a double-crust savoury mince & veggie plate pie which is lovely hot or cold. We also like the Hairy Bikers Scotch Egg Pie and chicken & leek with a filo topping is delicious too.
Apple and Blackberry with thick cream. Apples scrumped by my neighbour and the blackberries I pick and freeze every year from our neighbouring golf course home made pastry. It tastes so good as it’s almost all free to pick.
Besides my homemade Scouse pie and steak and Stilton my two favourites are steak and ale cheese and onion. Our daughter lives in Lancashire the pies up there are the best! Before COVID we would go up to visit her and always had a our lunch in a pub. It is always a difficult decision which pie to have.
My home-made meat and potato pie----which I might do for Sunday now that I think about it because it'll do me Monday as well Apple pie among the favourites. My mum's lemon meringue which the meringue was like a pillow and nearly the same size. Everything she baked was huge. Her Cornish Pasties were like dinosaurs.
Another here for meat and potato pie, with lashings of Henderson’s Yorkshire relish (which is a pale imitation of its former self - isn’t everything?)l! I make one a couple of times a month. I’m also very partial to chicken and mushroom pie, but DH doesn’t care for it.