[bloomer]

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

[Carse Goodlifers]

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.

[Rosemary]

A traditional Scottish New Year steak pie has link sausage in it. Yummy 

[bloomer]

sausage? i never new that is that as well as proper steak?

[Dan]

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. 

[bloomer]

i'll stick with the steak thing 

[lord flynn]

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

[bloomer]

nope i have only been here 3 years and prefer lorne...

[doganjo]

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! 

[Rosemary]

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! 

You must be posh. In Alloa, steak pie has sausage in it. But we were poor so it probaby was to fill it out.

[HappyHippy]

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 

[Dan]

Do you have a pastry bottom too Karen? (so to speak  )

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. 

[NicandChic]

Ours always have sausage in Yum!

[Louise Gaunt]

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!

[nutterly_uts]

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!!