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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
Steak and Onion Pie and Cornish Pasty? That's just weird.
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Actually, Steak and Onion PieS, Minced beef and onion pieS, Pork pieS, and Cornish PastyS! We were having a tasting party. My wife had never had any of them before, and I only had Cornish Pasty (in Quebec.) I had to stop a couple of guys outside the shop to ask cooking directions...
My only experience with savory pies were the vile "Swanson's" Chicken Pot Pie, Beef Pot Pie, Turkey Pot Pie served to me in my pre-teen years, which all tasted exactly alike and all tasted like wall paper paste... (Frankly, I prefer the wall paper paste.) Deep dish pot pies with 3 small cubes of chicke/beef/ or turkey, 11 cubes of potatoes, two of carrots (I assume for color) all swimming in a thick gluey gravy that was more corn starch than anything else, and all wrapped in pastry-colored cardboard. When ever I heard my Brit friends talking about their various pies, all I could think of was the glue.
Today I bought a variety of them; two of each from the two locally recommended makers. We've a very large UK ex-pat community, and even one of our biggest department store chains is Tessco. Four of them in the Chiang Mai region. We have three different local makers of traditional British foods, companies owned and run by Brits, and offering all the different pies, bangers, British style bacon (VERY different from our US style smoked 'streaky' bacon) sausage rolls, etc., etc., etc.
We agreed that we liked the Steak and Onion Pie from one of the makers, and a Cornish Pasty from a different makers. The Minced beef and Onion pies from both were OK, but nothing to write home about, and neither of the Pork Pies did anything special for either of us. We'll buy the Steak and Onion Pie and Cornish Pasty again (but not at the same time/)
Stitchawl