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Christmas Day tea?

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  • i too have buffet style xmas supper and have just made home made pork pie which i,ve sliced into generous wedges and put in freezer to go with usual cold meats cheese etc if anyone wants recipe i shall post it here easy and delicious to make

    I would love the recipe. We are having a buffet on Boxing Day and I am already doing a ham but would like to have pork pie too!

    Thanks!
  • linzmac give me a few minutes and i shall post it for you
  • pastry
    12 oz plain flour
    2 egg yolks
    4 oz lard
    170ml water

    filling

    1 and 1/4 1b pork shoulder cubed . i,ve used whoopsie shoulder steaks

    4 rashers bacon chopped
    1 chopped onion
    1/2 chopped celery stick
    pinch thyme
    4 oz breadcrumbs
    1 egg beaten

    make pastry
    put flour in bowl make a well add egg yolks cover with flour

    put lard in a pan with water to gently melt bring to boil and pour into flour

    mix quickly to make a dough leave aside

    MAKE FILLING

    chop up pork quite small can use processor i just use a knife

    add all other ingredients stir through till combined


    grease 7 inch loose bottomed tin

    divide pastry in to 2/3rds for bottom 1/3rd for top

    roll out on grease proof paper to save it sticking to work surface

    line tin with pastry doesnt matter if it breaks up as easily patched back together

    put in filling press down well

    cover with pastry lid and seal edges "pinching" pastry together

    make a 2cm hole in top

    can glaze with some beaten egg and decorate with pastry leftovers

    bake 210 c 45 mins

    reduce heat to 180 c for an hour cool in tin

    note if browning too much cover with foil


    once cool you can fill with aspic jelly if you wish

    i use 4 fl oz apple juice

    1/4 chicken stock cube

    2 tsp gelatine dissolve all together over gentle heat and once gelatine dissolved pour a little at a time through opastry hole

    shalltry and post pic of my pie if i can figure out how to do it x x


    bake
  • Brilliant, thank you very much!
  • rosieben
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    Getting hungry reading this thread!

    We usually have cold meat, pickles, salad, crisps and dips plus tiny sausage rolls etc. along with dessert, which might be just mince pies and christmas cake but more often a cheesecake or trifle as well. One thing I do like at Christmas is a big bowl of fresh fruit, lots of different kinds; its a bit of a counterbalance to so much rich food ;)
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  • Hi There,
    We always have what we call pickies for Christmas Tea, we eat
    between 2-3pm and come evening all we want is a pick. Just a finger
    buffet as others have suggested should be enough.
    And please remember this is your Christmas too, so don't stress too
    much and enjoy yourself.
    Merry Christmas Everyone
    Becky x
  • 281273
    281273 Posts: 146 Forumite
    We do a normal size dinner and then at night we do a big buffet tea, or as my kids call it party tea. I do sandwiches, sausages rolls, mini quiche, pork pies, nibbles and dips, pringles, my daughters favourite which is chesse and pineapple, then trifle, little cakes and choc gateux. There will be 7 of us and it nearly always gets ate up.
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