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My playing with pies has produced the following.

Success.
Pear pie. Using tinned pear quarters in natural juices from tesco's. Drain the water off, make pastry with self raising flour (not plain), chuck in the pears and sprinkle the top with a tea spoon of sugar. Delicious. A 7" pie using 150g of flour/50g stork baking marg/25g lard is about 210 calories per quarter pie.

Failure.
Had a lot of mushrooms left over, so made mushroom pie. Didn't precook the mushies so they were not really done. Tasted very 'samey'. Mushies are a good ingredient to add to a meat pie but are pretty poor on their own.
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  • cattie
    cattie Posts: 8,841 Forumite
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    I've used both tinned pears & tinned peaches to make crumbles with & they have been delicious. Tinned peaches can be bought for around 20p can at most supermarkets, so it makes a peach crumble a very tasty & economical dessert.
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  • voodoozoe
    voodoozoe Posts: 531 Forumite
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    Tinned crushed pineapple makes a yummy and unusual crumble filling :D

    Try putting your mushrooms in a nice sauce (try a tin of condensed soup(when its on bogof of course!)with a dash of wine or sherry) ;) and slicing them quite finely so they cook quicker.
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  • black-saturn
    black-saturn Posts: 13,937 Forumite
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    Roll out some puff pastry and place pear halves on top of it. In the hollow of the pears put some raisins and pine nuts. Cut the pastry about an inch away from the edge of the pear. Sprinkle on sugar and then bake in the oven until golden.
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  • Xbigman
    Xbigman Posts: 3,915 Forumite
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    voodoozoe wrote:
    Tinned crushed pineapple makes a yummy and unusual crumble filling :D

    I have made what I thought was a standard gammon and pineaple pie that was good, but everyone thinks it is unusual. Pineapples are Tesco's tinned in natural juices. I've been buying gammon and pork joints and slicing them up into 150g 'packs' to use instead of the cheap sliced meats the supermarkets sell. Its far healthier and costs about the same. All odd small bits of meat (Gammon in this case) can be chucked in a pie.
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  • bugs
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    Mushrooms are really nice in gougere. A choux pastry mix with grated cheese in it, put round the edge of a casserole dish to make a ring. Fill the centre with a mixture made from mushrooms gently fried with onion/garlic/grated carrots/celery etc (whatever flavourings you have), then a little flour added, and then milk to make a kind of white sauce (except it will be a mushroom coloured sauce). Bake until the choux ring is cooked and serve hot. OK, it's not really a pie but it is a way to make good use of the mushrooms and looks much more impressive than it is.
  • Mado
    Mado Posts: 21,776 Forumite
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    Could you please present your findings in a pie chart? Easier to read :D

    Doesn't have to a pie.... If you add a bit of eggs and cream or milk you can make an easy quiche style pie with anything.
    But mushrooms are notoriously flavourless by themselves if you haven't removed somne of the water before...
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  • Lydia_2
    Lydia_2 Posts: 145 Forumite
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    Try fying mushrooms in butter then add some garlic and lay then all in some filo pastry. sprinkle with grated cheese and put it into the oven, its yummy and you can make small ones that make lovely starters.
  • Iguana
    Iguana Posts: 1,781 Forumite
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    My (very old edition) of the paupers cookbook has a lovely recipe for a mushroom quiche/flan.
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