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Food & crafts => Recipes => Topic started by: bloomer on December 29, 2014, 11:26:52 am

Title: steak pie
Post by: bloomer on December 29, 2014, 11:26:52 am
does anyone have a good traditional recipe for steak pie for new years day?


want to make my own this year and need a plan please...


thanks

Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: Carse Goodlifers on December 29, 2014, 11:34:40 am
I tend to do it differently every time but it will usually contain the following:
Ready made puff pastry.
Season flour and roll the meat in it.
Fry the meat off to cook the flour and seal the meat.
A couple of onions.
stalk of celery.
Bay leaf
Thyme
Red wine or a stout

Cook in a casserole dish in the oven until meat is tender.
Add pastry on top and finish off until golden.
Mushrooms if you want it.
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: Rosemary on December 29, 2014, 11:57:28 am
A traditional Scottish New Year steak pie has link sausage in it. Yummy  :yum: :yum: :yum:
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: bloomer on December 29, 2014, 12:05:38 pm
sausage? i never new that is that as well as proper steak?
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: Dan on December 29, 2014, 03:01:02 pm
Yes!  ???

It's an abomination IMHO, I think it's one of those things that if you haven't grown up with it, it's hard(er) to appreciate.  ;)
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: bloomer on December 29, 2014, 03:07:41 pm
i'll stick with the steak thing  :excited: :excited: :excited:
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: lord flynn on December 29, 2014, 09:51:57 pm
Yes!  ???

It's an abomination IMHO, I think it's one of those things that if you haven't grown up with it, it's hard(er) to appreciate.  ;)


link sausage is fine (in anything!), lorne sausage you have to be born to IMHO ;)
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: bloomer on December 29, 2014, 09:58:14 pm
nope i have only been here 3 years and prefer lorne...
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: doganjo on December 29, 2014, 11:43:23 pm
I've had steak pie in all parts of Scotland and never had one with sausage in it - I think that's just a way of making the steak spin out - it's not a steak pie if it's not just steak!  :rant:
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: Rosemary on December 30, 2014, 09:30:13 am
I've had steak pie in all parts of Scotland and never had one with sausage in it - I think that's just a way of making the steak spin out - it's not a steak pie if it's not just steak!  :rant:

You must be posh. In Alloa, steak pie has sausage in it. But we were poor so it probaby was to fill it out.
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: HappyHippy on December 30, 2014, 02:38:10 pm
Every large steak pie I've ever bought from the butcher has beef link in too (but I'm not a lover of it either)
I cook my steak in the slow cooker, make a gravy from the juices and assemble in a pie dish. Before putting the pastry top on I sprinkle some grated cheese over the beef/gravy (as per Jamie Oliver's steak & ale pie) et voila  :yum:
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: Dan on December 30, 2014, 04:27:07 pm
Do you have a pastry bottom too Karen? (so to speak  :D )

In my head a pie is a filling encased in pastry, not what you get down the pub when they just plonk a bit of puff pastry on top of a beef casserole.  >:(
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: NicandChic on December 30, 2014, 04:31:50 pm
Ours always have sausage in Yum!
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: Louise Gaunt on December 30, 2014, 05:00:20 pm
Radio Four Kitchen Cabinet was from Berwick on Tweed today. Hogmanay steak pie was discussed, and the view taken by the Scots in the audience was that sausage is an integral part of how the pie should taste. As an aside, I made a cottage pie last week with added chorizo (it needed to be used up!) I thought it worked well, so not unlike a Hogmanay steak pie really!
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: nutterly_uts on December 30, 2014, 07:42:30 pm
My dad (Scottish) introduced me to the delight of Lorne Sausage in a crusty roll, bit of salt and brown sauce <drool>
Never had any form of sausage in steak pie though!!
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: Auld Cairnallochy on December 30, 2014, 09:28:51 pm
My Grandfather, father and some cousins had butcher shops and they never put sausages in their steak pies, their customers would have run them out of town up here. It would spoil the taste of a good steak pie.
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: sabrina on December 30, 2014, 09:39:01 pm
Never watched Still Game then, There steak pie has to have a sausage in it.
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: Carse Goodlifers on December 30, 2014, 09:43:07 pm
I'm guessing that it must be a regional thing - adding sausages.
I too have never heard of a steak pie having sausages in it.
However I did do a web search for 'traditional Scottish steak pie recipe' and I was surprised that there were recipes which included sausages.

Do you have a pastry bottom too Karen? (so to speak  :D )
In my head a pie is a filling encased in pastry, not what you get down the pub when they just plonk a bit of puff pastry on top of a beef casserole.  >:(
Dan - this could be a whole other discussion - pastry bottom or not - I'm not fussed really.
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: bloomer on December 30, 2014, 10:04:26 pm
well mine won't have sausages or a pastry bottom sorry...







Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: doganjo on December 30, 2014, 11:10:22 pm
My Grandfather, father and some cousins had butcher shops and they never put sausages in their steak pies, their customers would have run them out of town up here. It would spoil the taste of a good steak pie.
Just how I feel - I'd have thrown it back if I'd tasted sausage - cheap muck spoiling a good pie  :innocent:
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: Rosemary on December 31, 2014, 10:05:40 am
My Grandfather, father and some cousins had butcher shops and they never put sausages in their steak pies, their customers would have run them out of town up here. It would spoil the taste of a good steak pie.
Just how I feel - I'd have thrown it back if I'd tasted sausage - cheap muck spoiling a good pie  :innocent:

Excuse me! Our sausages are not "cheap muck".
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: NicandChic on December 31, 2014, 12:51:16 pm
I prefer the sausage to the steak  :innocent:
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: sabrina on December 31, 2014, 02:23:44 pm
One of my friends also puts in a slice of black pudding. You would never put a cheap sausage in. Has to be the best.
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: Rosemary on December 31, 2014, 03:21:57 pm
I prefer the sausage to the steak  :innocent:

That's 'cos it's not Shetland steak  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: NicandChic on December 31, 2014, 05:58:02 pm
I prefer the sausage to the steak  :innocent:

That's 'cos it's not Shetland steak  :thumbsup:

You could be right  :)
Title: Re: steak pie
Post by: doganjo on December 31, 2014, 07:46:11 pm
My Grandfather, father and some cousins had butcher shops and they never put sausages in their steak pies, their customers would have run them out of town up here. It would spoil the taste of a good steak pie.
Just how I feel - I'd have thrown it back if I'd tasted sausage - cheap muck spoiling a good pie  :innocent:

Excuse me! Our sausages are not "cheap muck".
I wasn't referring to your own sausages or your own home made steak pie.  :-*  It's up you how you make it.  Personally any sausage put in a steak pie is cheaper than what should be in  it, perhaps muck was a bit strong. :innocent: