"plate Pies"

raphanius

OH and I lived on pie plates through the last recession when we were unemployed...thanks for reminding me about them. my faves were cheese and onion, egg and bacon and apple.

anguk

Inspired by this thread we had plate mince pie with mash & peas yesterday and I also made a cheese, onion & potato one for lunches or supper.

Just had a thought, there's some past their best apples in the bottom of the fridge, I might make a pie out of them to stick in the oven while dinner is cooking and we can have it for pudding with custard.

ben500

Errata wrote: »

Campng shops usually sell enamel plates, and Amazon has them in various sizes for a couple of quid.
My mum made pies on dinner plates, tea plates and saucers !

Yup, saucers is your answer guv! Almost everyone has a set of saucers they don't use and they are perfect for individual plate pies for lunch boxes etc, the only recipe you need for filling is your own imagination, anything but anything you wish can be used as a filling so long as it wont' sodden the pastry due to excessive moisture so experiment!!

If using for using saucers to make lunchbox plate pies you can leave the pie on the saucer, {depending on how many saucers and kids you have and that they will be responsible enough to carry a china saucer in their bag to school}, simply lightly grease the saucer and then coat with a little flour prior to putting the bottom layer of pastry on, this will ensure that your child can just pop the pie out of the saucer when ready to eat it, whenever I gave these to my kids to take to school with them they used to come back with tales of the offers to trade they had at breaktime as lots of their mates were envious of them, they used to have savoury one day and dessert the next and would be totally gutted if they had to have sandwiches because I hadn't made up enough pies in advance.

Apricot for dessert and corned beef and potato savoury were runaway favourites with mine. They are also a good way of sneaking in the more healthy ingredients to your childrens diet by the way, none of my kids would eat carrot, or so they thought, however I used to grate carrot and add it to almost every pie recipe be it sweet or savoury, none of them ever noticed and one even practices the same for his children, beans can be ground to a paste although green beans can be somewhat conspicuous, anything that does not have too distinctive a taste can be smuggled into their diet in this manner.

Seakay

thriftmonster wrote: »

Trex will be a hydrogenated vegetable fat - lard is a natural product that has less saturated fat than butter, and makes beautiful pastry.

I love cheese, onion and potato - made with |Red Leicester when I could eat it. Bilberry plate pie is yummy as well.

Trex does NOT contain hydrogenated fats:

http://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Trex-Vegetable-Fat/43789011?parentContainer=%7C3%7C1081%7C302

lard IS a natural product, but it is not very useful for vegetarians!

steerpike

Ben500 - we do the saucer pies for packup too!
Its an economical way to use up all those assorted odds and ends of both sweet and savoury food. I always keep and freeze any left over gravy or veggies as they really come in handy for filling out and adding taste and texture

thriftmonster

OK Trex has no hydrogenated fats - but how do they get vegetable oils to be solid without hydrogenating them - I'm actually curious as I would be interested as I cook for veggies and Moslems sometimes and obviously I don't use lard then.

Paulie'sGirl

thriftmonster wrote: »

OK Trex has no hydrogenated fats - but how do they get vegetable oils to be solid without hydrogenating them - I'm actually curious as I would be interested as I cook for veggies and Moslems sometimes and obviously I don't use lard then.

I second this, the Chemist in me is piqued... I shall have to have a google and see how they do it...

Thanks for pointing this out though, I'd always avoided Trex and similar for exactly this reason.

PGxx

Bella79

Just made my first one ever it was left over bacon softened onions and potaotes .................... think it went well theres only 1 slice left lol

redballoon_2

well done you! how did you make it?

cady

ooh yes do share!!