for cookie, and leoleo who emailed me, oh and tara, have you sent me your addy?
here's what the pie looks like when you make it in the cake tin to serve 6 to 8
it's sat on a 10" dinner plate! plenty for everyone:-D
good grief no!! it' was mahoooosive, we had a couple of dinners and a lunch out of it. It's better hot and the pastry is crunchy then.....
I'm dribblin' now:^O
OK here we go guys....it's a speshul pie, a bit norty wiv the calories but oh boy it's yummy:8}
Ham Potato and Bacon pie.
I use a spring loaded cake tin to make this look impressive, but you can use a pie plate.
Make up 8oz of pastry using 8oz SR flour and 4oz of Atora suet, either the veggy one or the ordinary one. Mix with water and form a dough.
Boil about 12 small new potatoes until just soft, drain and cool.
Fry off about 5 pieces of smoked bacon until nice and crisp. Drain and cool.
I used 8oz of ham pieces from my local deli, but if you can’t get pieces just buy a couple of thick slices. Cut into big pieces.
Make a white sauce, using 4fluid ounces of milk, and a tablespoon of cornflour, don’t add all the cornflour at once, just add it until you get a nice thick sauce, and add any flavouring you like, I used cheese slices (2) melted in. You could use parsley, or herb. It doesn’t matter if you want to cheat and use a packet sauce, just don’t add the full half pint they recommend, use only half the amount.
Combine the potato, ham, bacon into the sauce of your choice.
If you are using a cake tin, take 2/3rds of the pastry roll it out and line the cake tin. Pour in your mixture and top it with the other 1/3rd of the pastry. Crimp the edges to make a nice finish.
If you are using a pie plate, you may need two as this is a lot of filling. Halve your pastry and use to line each plate, divide up your mix and put half in each dish.
Place the tin or pie plates on a baking tray as sometimes you get some fat leaking out of the suet pastry.
Egg wash the pastry top and if using the cake tin, bake in the oven electric 180c for 45mins. If using the plates, cook for 30mins. Check to make sure they are not over browning about 10mins before total time is up. Cover with foil to prevent burning at this stage.
If you have used the cake tin, leave the pie on the base as it will be easier to cut.
This amount of pie will easily serve 6 to 8 with a vegetable.
It’s better served hot as the suet pastry isn’t at it’s best cold.
Enjoy!!
oh forgot to say, this is good made with turkey and sweetcorn added too. Useful when Christmas turkey is beginning to get on yer nerves:^O use a white sauce.
or leave out the sweetcorn, add onion and dark gravy.
:8}...ooops forgot this too.
cram it as full as you can, add extra spuds if you want, this way it stays together better.
I'll shurrup now:-)
That was all going so well capt,:-D....................................
until you mentioned all that sloppy milk and cornflower! 😮
It's ruined now.:_|
why? it's just a sauce....don't you do sauces?
you can leave it out if you like but it would be a bit dry.
to reheat it I'd wrap it in foil as soon as you've had your first serving, so the sauce stays in place or it'll run out of the pie. You can then heat it up in the foil packet. As long as it's red hot it shouldn't be a problem.
If you think you will have left overs you could always do it in two pie plates then you could have a fresh one each time.
