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Pies & Savoury Puddings
Suet crusts, pasties and proper pies
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10 recipes
Shepherd’s Pie
Minced lamb simmered in rich gravy under a furrowed, golden mash — the correct shepherd’s pie is always lamb, and always better the day after.
Serves 4–685 min totalModerate
Cottage Pie
The beefy sibling of the shepherd’s pie — humble cottage cooking from the days when potatoes were the poor man’s roof. Deeply savoury and endlessly comforting.
Serves 4–685 min totalModerate
Steak & Ale Pie
Slow-braised beef in a dark ale gravy beneath a buttery shortcrust lid — Britain’s most-ordered pub pie and the one every gastropub is judged by.
Serves 4–6180 min totalModerate
Steak & Kidney Pie
The aristocrat of English pies — beef and ox kidney in a thick, peppery gravy under golden pastry. A pie that demands respect and a large appetite.
Serves 4–6180 min totalModerate
Chicken & Mushroom Pie
Poached chicken and chestnut mushrooms folded through a tarragon cream sauce, lidded with shattering puff pastry — the nation’s favourite pie filling in poll after poll.
Serves 470 min totalModerate
The Cornish Pasty
Protected by European law and Cornish pride: beef skirt, potato, swede and onion crimped in a sturdy shortcrust — a complete meal for the tin miner’s hand.
Makes 4 large pasties90 min totalModerate
Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
Hand-raised hot-water crust, uncured chopped pork, and a savoury jelly poured through the hole — the hunting-breakfast pie that defines an entire town.
Makes 1 large pie (serves 8)150 min totalInvolved
Proper Fish Pie
Smoked haddock, cod and prawns in a parsley cream sauce beneath buttery mash — coastal England’s answer to the shepherd’s pie, and a Friday night institution.
Serves 4–670 min totalModerate
Cheese & Onion Pie
Lancashire’s great vegetarian pie — sweet slow onions and sharp cheddar in shortcrust, born of ration-book ingenuity and still on every northern chippy counter.
Serves 680 min totalModerate
Steak & Kidney Pudding
England’s great steamed suet pudding — hours of gentle steaming produce a pale, tender crust around beef and kidney swimming in their own rich gravy.
Serves 4275 min totalInvolved