Thread: Re: Potato pies and other things I miss

On Mar 6, 12:29*pm, "Zeppo" <zepp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "It Wuznie Me" <jillandgor...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in messagenews:[email protected]..
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> > When we were poor and living in Blackburn, Lancs in the 50s, we used
> > to get potato pies as a cheap dinner. *If I remember correctly, they
> > were mashed potato with flecks of meat in them in a pi shell. *I loved
> > them.
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> > As I age, I reminisce about the things I miss about the foods I used
> > to get when we lived in Scotland. *Jill makes me mince and tatties,
> > clapshot (a mixture of mashed potatoes and mashed rutabaga -
> > delicious, we buy frozen scottish pies from the local British store
> > and we love Idris ginger beer. *Even here in Fort Worth, we can get a
> > really good battered cod dinner although the chips are nothing to
> > write home about.
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> > However, I would like to at least try a potato pie again, so does
> > anyone have a recipe.
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> > Also, when we would go back to York to visit my parents, we would get
> > delicious meat pies from a pie shop in downtown York. *I have no idea
> > what the filling was.
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> > Does anyone have a recipe for potato pie and for any good British meat
> > pies (the kind that are supposed to be eaten hot).
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> > Do any other older former poor Brits have memories of favorite foods
> > from their past?
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> > My Scottish grandmother used to give my cousin and me pieces of good
> > Scottish bread (the kind that always seemed a little burnt on the
> > upper crust) with a layer of condensed mild covered with sugar. *Oh it
> > was so good. *She also used to make tablet for me but I have a recipe
> > for that now.
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> Try this recipe and see if it looks close....
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> http://www.cookitsimply.com/recipe-0010-045o60.html
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> As for the meat used in the pies, have you seen the new Johnny Depp movie
> that's out now? *:-)
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> Regards,
> Jon- Hide quoted text -
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I was very young but I do remember the British barbers of the fifties
as being less than gentle. HOwever, they dad nothing on the dentists
back then.