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Cooking steak pie - Help please
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Indypop
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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
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
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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
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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!!!0 -
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=11Less is more0 -
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 tin0
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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.0 -
that is pretty good given you're having lovely steak for each meal
I want steak pie now, but our butcher's closed0 -
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 themBlessed are the cracked for they are the ones that let in the light
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Not Buying it 2015!0 -
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.0
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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 themI 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.
I love enamelwareif 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
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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.I could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die: I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by.Yup you are officially Rock n Roll0
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