fish pie - merged threads

morganlefay

I thought would just say that last night we had Delia's fish thing made with her 'easy flaky pastry' - it's from her original 3 part book, Part 1, and we used to have it a lot as it's economical and easy. You make flaky pastry by grating the fat into the flour and then adding water (that really is easy, tho I used butter as she used to use hard marge and I think that's full of BAD things now isn't it ? ) Then you roll it into a square and put (cooled down) cooked fish in a stiffish white sauce with capers, gherkins and boiled egg in, you pull up the corners so you have a square parcel with the edges all squidged together on the top, brush with egg and cook. I'll type out the whole recipe if anyone interested. We haven't had it for years and I know why I liked it (apart from it being delicious) it's because if you make it earlier in the day, come the evening when you don't want to cook you just wang it in the oven and there it is - add a frozen pea or two and scoff, smiling.:rotfl:
if anyone wants the recipe I'll type it out........
I do find that going back to that old book of Delia's is often a lot easier (and cheaper) than using new recipes...I read that someone had done her spaghetti meat sauce from the old book, and then one she had done in a newer book and the new one is all 'pancetta' instead of just streaky bacon, and posher mince and other similar things and had gone very upmarket so that the new version cost much more than the old, but tasted much the same. Humm: food for thought amongst us OS people I think !