Cooking steak pie - Help please

Indypop

I dropped my pyrex pie dish and it broke on my floor!!
Can I use a removeable bottom cake tin instead to make my pie?
It is about an inch high and I have enough pastry to make it in it but dont want to ruin it and have to chuck out all this expensive meat.
Should I line it with silicone paper or just butter it well?
Any thoughts?

Indy x

Swan_2

hi Indy

if you're giving the pie a pastry bottom it'll be fine, you shouldn't even have to grease it as the pastry has its own, but if you want to be extra sure just buttter it lightly

but if it's a top crust only pie you might find the gravy will leak out & you'd be best lining the top & sides with paper/parchment making sure there are no spaces

Indypop

It would be a top and bottom pie - thanks for the advice. Steak is sooo expensive and I would hate to waste it.
I did worry that I would have to turn it into pasties - which just arent the same at all!!!

aliadds

Hello Indy

As Swan said it will be fine for a top and bottom pie, and doesn't require greasing or silicone.
If it was just a top crust, you could cook the pastry separately.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=1333240&postcount=11

Swan_2

great, it'll work just fine then, I unless I'm doing my giant festive season steak pie, I always do mine in a loose-botttomed quiche tin

Indypop

Thanks - I am tryong to get more into the way of meal planning and this way way my £7 of stewing steak will make two stew and dumplings dinners for 2 and two small steak pies which will do 2 more dinners each for 2.
Eight dinners for £7 (plus veg) isnt too bad I think.

Swan_2

that is pretty good given you're having lovely steak for each meal

I want steak pie now, but our butcher's closed

Butterfly_Brain

I have a couple of the enamel plates from 99p stores that I use for making plate pies, and there is no chance of breaking them

Indypop

I will have to look out for them - are they the white ones with blue round the lip - my mum used to have some of them.

Swan_2

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I have a couple of the enamel plates from 99p stores that I use for making plate pies, and there is no chance of breaking them

Indypop wrote: »

I will have to look out for them - are they the white ones with blue round the lip - my mum used to have some of them.

*nostalgia alert*

I love enamelware if you can't find any in local shops, there's usually a good range available on ebay, I've been wanting one of the tea canisters with the carrying handle & mug on top for ages

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Camping shops sell them for ridiculous prices, but if you look in some of the homeware shops catering for [tries to think of a non offensive phrase] Indian, Caribbean, African populations, you'll usually find them for far less.

I got mine from Poundland years ago. Brilliant things. But they don't often show up in there nowdays.