Sausage pie
Sausage Pie – David Rangeley has brought up the subject of sausage pie. Neither of us can remember whether it had a top or a bottom (or both) of pastry. If someone has a better memory I will try and get a recipe.
Sausage pie
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Re: Sausage pie
Sausage pie and war time rice pudding
December’s article seems to have really got the hare running. David Rangeley and I were debating whether sausage pie had pastry on the top, on the bottom or all around. Richard Harvey was able to put us straight. There was no pastry. The dish consisted of a layer of sausage meat topped by mash potato and served with baked beans. Rob Spooner tells me that this was developed by the arrival of an Australian lady (not sure if teacher or cook) who jazzed it up and created “Oz Pie”. This consisted of sausage meat, tomatoes, baked beans with a mashed potato topping finished with bread crumbs. Well-known local food critic John Spooner is reported to have described it as SCRUMPTIOUS!During the Christmas break I was discussing school lunches with my 4 and 7 year old grandchildren. They said there was a choice (I kid you not!) and the menu includes Pizza, chicken, chips, hamburgers etc. I did my grandfatherly bit and related our Spartan diet at boarding school in the 1950s and 1960s. Of course I can hear the mumblings from our older members. “Those pampered lads from the 1950s and 1960s do not know how lucky they were. They should have seen what we were faced with in the 1940s”. I was wondering what food would have been like in the 1940s when the following arrived from Nikolai Tolstoy:“In the 1940s food was of necessity none too good. At one time we had rice pudding, no doubt shipped across the oceans at great danger to our sailors, which contained more maggots than rice. We painstakingly distributed the maggots around the rims of our bowls. However, I don’t recall being hungry, which I certainly was afterwards at Wellington”.I now feel rather pathetic moaning about Tapioca!
December’s article seems to have really got the hare running. David Rangeley and I were debating whether sausage pie had pastry on the top, on the bottom or all around. Richard Harvey was able to put us straight. There was no pastry. The dish consisted of a layer of sausage meat topped by mash potato and served with baked beans. Rob Spooner tells me that this was developed by the arrival of an Australian lady (not sure if teacher or cook) who jazzed it up and created “Oz Pie”. This consisted of sausage meat, tomatoes, baked beans with a mashed potato topping finished with bread crumbs. Well-known local food critic John Spooner is reported to have described it as SCRUMPTIOUS!During the Christmas break I was discussing school lunches with my 4 and 7 year old grandchildren. They said there was a choice (I kid you not!) and the menu includes Pizza, chicken, chips, hamburgers etc. I did my grandfatherly bit and related our Spartan diet at boarding school in the 1950s and 1960s. Of course I can hear the mumblings from our older members. “Those pampered lads from the 1950s and 1960s do not know how lucky they were. They should have seen what we were faced with in the 1940s”. I was wondering what food would have been like in the 1940s when the following arrived from Nikolai Tolstoy:“In the 1940s food was of necessity none too good. At one time we had rice pudding, no doubt shipped across the oceans at great danger to our sailors, which contained more maggots than rice. We painstakingly distributed the maggots around the rims of our bowls. However, I don’t recall being hungry, which I certainly was afterwards at Wellington”.I now feel rather pathetic moaning about Tapioca!