#HUMBLE PIE RECIPE HOW TO#

Add the ham, fry until sealed and golden brown at the edges.Melt the 50g of butter in a frying pan and fry the onions and potato over a medium heat for 5 mins.Roll out the excess pastry you trimmed off to make a lid for the pie.Blind bake for 12 minutes, remove the baking beans and parchment and bake for a further 5 minutes.Lay baking parchment in the tin on top of the pastry and fill with baking beans to weight it down. Line the cake tin (don’t forget to grease the tin first) with the pastry.

Remove from the fridge and roll out on a floured surface with a rolling pin until it is about ½ cm thick.Form a rough ball with your fingers, wrap in glad wrap and refrigerate for 20 mins.Keep adding the water until the mix begins to stick together.Pour the mix into a bowl, form a well in the middle and pour in about 1/3 of the water and gently mix with your fingers.Blend for 25 seconds until a breadcrumb texture. Cube the butter and add to a food processor along with the flour and salt.

#HUMBLE PIE RECIPE HOW TO#

Make the pastry, watch my how to make pastry video:.

Like the Cornish pasty it was the food of the workers and popular in the fields at harvest time. The key ingredients are apples, onions and ham, bacon or gammon. The origins of the odd sounding name seem to have come from the fact that it originally was fitched, which means five sided in Anglo-Saxon. This unusually named pie originates around Derbyshire and Shropshire, in the middle of the country. However, today I want to share a lesser known dish from the mother land, fidget (or fidgety) pie. Of course the obvious conclusion when thinking about the combination of apples, winter and hearty food is probably an apple crumble. The Granny Smith’s sharp, crisp and tangy flesh, make it ideal for cooking.

Aussie apple fact that you may not know: the Granny Smith apple originated in Australia, being first cultivated by Mary Ann Smith in the late 1860’s. Aside from hearty nosh the other thing that I like about late autumn, (or is it winter now?) is the fact that apples and onions are at their best.Īs a Brit it pains me to admit but at the same time pleases me that Australian apples are among the finest I have ever tasted. I think it was mainly because it made the hot shower and après drenching food and beers all the better. Strange though it may seem I used to enjoy going out for a hike or even playing a game of rugby in this type of fierce weather. It’s the type of weather that reminds me of autumn in England (or sometimes even summer). 2 hours at 175C (or 350F) or less depending on type of oven. Fill the pastry lined Pie tin with meat/fruit mixture and add the lid making an air hole and using pastry offcuts to decorate. The return trip to Sydney by car wasn’t much better as we hit the oncoming weather bomb complete with New Zealand style sideways rain and gale force winds. Prepare sufficient short-crust pastry to line a suitable size pie tin and enough to make a lid.

Earlier this week I paid a short visit to Canberra, at 9 degrees C it was pretty chilly.

Humble pie recipe