The PIE Thread

Anonymous

i dont like fruit in my savoury pies thank you very much but after my scotch egg success yeaterday, im wondering if i cn be arsed to make a delicious pie for my tea..........................................

Anonymous

Thewaylander wrote:

But most of you are talking about pre processed gack pie's.. fray bentos + morrisons and that muck.

Ah, quit your whiney Pie-hippy-dictatorship, and go for a bloody ride on your steel rigid singlespeed, will you?

A Pie is a pie. Of course a good pie is better than a crap pie, but any pie is better than no pie.

Bloody mong. :roll:

Thewaylander

Yeh i need to be baking some real pie to make up for some people in this thread

Anonymous

sheepsteeth wrote:

i dont like fruit in my savoury pies thank you very much but after my scotch egg success yeaterday, im wondering if i cn be arsed to make a delicious pie for my tea..........................................

Yes, you can, and it has to be a battenburg cake-pie.

Hey, I've just thought of a proper name for cake-pies. Pakes.

Anonymous

yeehaamcgee wrote:

sheepsteeth wrote:

i dont like fruit in my savoury pies thank you very much but after my scotch egg success yeaterday, im wondering if i cn be arsed to make a delicious pie for my tea..........................................

Yes, you can, and it has to be a battenburg cake-pie.

Hey, I've just thought of a proper name for cake-pies. Pakes.

nicely done. i will bring one up with me.

im thinking of doing t the lazy way though, buying a bettenobvious, buying some pastry (sweet of course) wrapping the cake in the pastry with a generous helping of some sort of jam betwixt the two, served with double cream and eaten like im in jail (over hand spoon grasp, bowl protected in the crook of my arm head as close to the bowl as possible without getting cream on my massive nose)

itll be like a beef wellington but with cake and jam as opposed to beef and mushroom pate stuff. a "cake wellington" if you will.

MissBint37

yeehaamcgee wrote:

A Pie is a pie. Of course a good pie is better than a crap pie, but any pie is better than no pie.

^^ This

And a pie with a pastry base and covered in mash...hmm, well dictionary says covered in pastry so I'd say not pie, although it may be proper tasty Got to be some sort of tart/bake hybrid....so it could either be a BART or a TAKE

Anonymous

I'd like to take a bart.

supersonic

American pie - one for sheeps I think...

MacAndCheese

MissBint37 wrote:

2. Open Pies

Is a 'pie' which is not entirely covered in pastry even a pie? What is the difference between an open pie and a tart? Personally I believe the tart is calling itself an 'open pie' rather than a tart becasue pies are obvioulsy considerably better than tarts.*

There's also the 'pies' you sometimes get in gastro pubs where it just a casserole/stew in a pot with a puff pastry lid (no pastry sides or base)...these for me are the most disappointing things ever, as I love the pastry bottom of a good pie that all soaked in gravy from the contents of the pie!

Anonymous

Oh, those stupid things with a lid, but no sides are bollorks. That's not a pie, it's not even food, it's just a lazy chef's sad excuse for a pie. Especially as 97% of the time, those things contain very little, or NO meat.

Anonymous

agreed about th pies which are all lid and no bottom, rip off as they look all inviting and whatnot but are a proper let down.

i feel the sme about pizzas, they are a lazy sandwich. the way to finish off the construction of a pizza s to make another and flip it upside down and place on top of the first, that way you have bread, filling and bread. job done.

Thewaylander

Actually don't mind Pie's like that as they are a very tradditional pie, and the crock pots aloow the the filling to develop a fuller taste if cooked correctly, sadly a pub one will not have these long stewed vurtes

TheNorthernTrain

Thewaylander wrote:

Make a pie fresh, or get it from a real pie shop (and yes they do exist, one of the best i know is in Reading).

Would that be Sweeny Todd's pie shop?

I love pie, infact i had pie last night. and nothing goes better with a pie than a pint of real ale!

Pie and Roast Dinners should be the only food allowed in Britain!

Anonymous

I'll crock pot you in a minute.

Mynameisdann

Nicest pie ive ever had was a steak one up at the black boy by knowle...Ommm nom nom

Anonymous

Mynameisdann wrote:

Nicest pie ive ever had was a steak one up at the black boy by knowle...Ommm nom nom

i'll one up the black boy you in a minute

Mynameisdann

Please no :shock:

Penylope

How do the great and good of the fora' eat aformantioned pies though?


Remove and eat the lid while still hot and crispy (also allowing the pie contents to breath), then devour the filling, accompanied with the plate dressing of choice (chips, roasties, mash etc) leaving, as M&C above mentioned the gravey soaked glory that is the bottom of a great pie.








OR









slice sections out of it like a large cake, enjoyong the taste sensation of gravey soaked bottom, succulent filling and delicate crispy lid in one ecstatic mouthfull.


:?:

nicklouse

Penylope
yes.

Anonymous

I concur with Nick. My answer is also YES.

tsenior

sadly a pub one will not have these long stewed vurtes

next time any of you visit llandegla find the ffrwdd pub (about 20 mins away) their pies (albeit cheats pies with pastry lid only) are beef and ale and stewed as long as you like, also their large size is REALLY large, best pub pie bar none (the sunday roast is also the best in a 50 mile radius) DO NOT have a starter, the portions are massive.

i usually make a batch of hot-water-lard pastry (as used in pork pies) mixed game pies for boxing day lunch.

last year i dident have any game in so made an all day breakfast pie, the inner pastry was lined with bacon and chunks of black pudding and a whole boiled egg were mixed in with the sausagemeat filling.......these were good pies 8)

Anonymous

after a trip to manchester last year i found a new method for eating a pie, it was to select your favourite pie and eat it with beetroot. was a strange thing until i tried it but it is so delicious it would make your head spin.

another fave way is to eat it as a sandwich.

nicklouse

well this thread got me peckish so tonite it is spare ribs.

Anonymous

I haven't got any spare ribs, I've used them all up

Anonymous

i havent got any spares either, im using them all, budum tissh.

Kitty

MissBint, great minds think a like I was going to start a pie thread tonight after the delivery of a home made pie from my Grandma.

Cheese and onion, every person I know whose tried it agrees it's one the the best pies they've ever tasted. So very shortly I'll be tucking in to it, pix to follow!

Oh and I was apparently greedy at dinner as I had two meat and potato pies followed by two muffins. Bah!

Anonymous

pies and muffins?

eaten by a girl?

nice.

Anonymous

muffin diver. pmsl

kaytronika

psymon wrote:

I live in the pie capital of the UK!

other towns refer to us as the pie eaters.

the mascot for wigan is a big pie with arms and legs!

the local special is a wigan kebab - a pie in a barmcake (bread roll to everyone else)

but i might be the only wiganer who doesnt like pies. love a good (greggs) sausage roll.

Muffin Man pies from Park Road are a favourite of mine. Yum.

thekickingmule

I went into Leeds just now because of this thread, and went into 3 bakers (albeit, 2 of them were Greggs, so only count as 'bakers') and was massively dissapointed! I wanted a meat and potato pie and then an apple pie for pudding but none of them had any pies AT ALL! :evil:

Leeds, you've not only let me down, you've let yourself down.