Pies

Mince, mushroom, courgette and cheese!

Shoofly pie is a type of American pie made with molasses associated with Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine. While shoo-fly pie has been a staple of Moravian, Mennonite, and Amish foodways, there is scant evidence concerning its origins, and most of the folktales concerning the pie are apocryphal, including the persistent legend that the name comes from flies being attracted to the sweet filling.[1]

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I love pies, and pies love me.

I just love them. Bloody awesome. They’re right up there. I say I’m a pie connoisseur because when I first left school and was a farm worker, I used to buy about 40 pies every 10 days. That’s what I lived on. I’ve eaten a lot of pies.

The bacon and egg slice scored a more modest 6½ but won praise for its value and generous proportions. Brown guessed the almost half-kilo slab of breakfast contained four eggs and six rashers of bacon but cost just $5.50.

Here's the recipe I use. It comes from this post in r/nz. Copied here so you don't have to visit the orange site.

Pastry

• 200g lard or dripping
• 1 cup boiling water
• 3 & 1/3 cups plain flour
• 1tspn salt

Melt the dripping into the water on the stove using a low heat.

Add the salt to the flour and mix in

Slowly mix your fluid with the flour until it binds and cools and knead it on the bench to mix. Throw it in the fridge to cool for 20 mins while you do the filling.

Filling

• 500g mince beef
• Medium onion

Fine chop the onion and brown it in a large frying pan with some of the left over dripping. Add the mince and brown it.

Then mix up and add

• 2 cups boiling water
• 4 tspn of beef stock
• 1 tspn salt
• 2 tblspn of cracked pepper
• 1 tspn of parsley
• 1 tspn thyme
• 1 tblspn cumin

Let that simmer for 15 mins or so then add 1/2 a cup of milk and 2tblspn of flour to thicken it up for a couple of mins. Take off heat and allow to cool.

Roll out the pastry to 3-4mm thick and put the casings in your trays. Add filling and tasty cheese, put the top on.

Bake for 15-20mins at 180°. Your time may vary depending on your oven.

Not at all healthy, but you'll be fat and happy.

I've lived enough years to travel all over New Zealand and ate a lot of pies.

The Fairlie Bakehouse is in the top 3, for sure.

A kiwi classic