RCI-BR.006.0037.001

Stargazy Pie

Name: Stargazy Pie
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 unit As many fresh Herrings (Pilchards or Mackerel to fill your dish); 1 unit Sufficient pastry to cover your dish; 1 unit Fresh chopped parsley; 1 unit Salt & pepper; 1 unit Up to 6 eggs (or, ½ pint (300 mL) of cream, or top-of-the-milk); 1 unit Fine breadcrumbs; 1 unit Fat bacon rashers ((green or smoked to your preference)); 2 unit Tbs. Tarragon vinegar; 1 unit Butter

Cuisine of the UK – a rich fish pie from Cornwall in the United Kingdom. The Wikipedia photo

Prep15 min

Cook30 min

Total45 min

Servings4

Difficultyintermediate

Ingredients

As many fresh Herrings
Pilchards or Mackerel to fill your dish
1 unit
Sufficient pastry to cover your dish
1 unit
Fresh chopped parsley
1 unit
Salt & pepper
1 unit
Up to 6 eggs
or, ½ pint (300 mL) of cream, or top-of-the-milk
1 unit
Fine breadcrumbs
1 unit
Fat bacon rashers
(green or smoked to your preference)
1 unit
Tbs. Tarragon vinegar
2 unit
Butter
1 unit

Method

Scale, clean & bone the fish, retaining heads.

Season inside each with salt, pepper & parsley, roll neatly.

Butter dish, & sprinkle a thick layer of breadcrumbs on.

Lay in some of the fish, then alternate breadcrumbs & fish until dish is full.

Cover with rashers.

Beat eggs with vinegar, pour into pie, or use cream.

Cover with pastry.

Arrange heads on pastry, so as they are looking up (to the stars).

Bake in a hot oven.

Serve with a sprig of parsley in mouth of each fish.

Stargazy Pie

Ingredients

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