Clanger Pie

Baking day again!

We decided to make a pie today, but couldn’t decide which one to do. A few days ago, we watched an episode of River Cottage, where they made a Bedfordshire dish called a “Clanger”. It’s a bit like a pasty (or “elongated suet crust dumpling”…) but with a different filling at each end. The original pasty had savoury at one end and sweet at the other – a meal in one package… We were making a savoury meal, but why not use the same concept for a pie?
So was born the Clanger Pie! 😉

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Waiting to be covered – one side cheese and onion pie, one side “shepherd’s” pie (although nothing to do with a shepherd, since it’s beef and bacon…)

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Covered with pastry one side, potato the other, with an egg wash.

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Cooked!

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…and ready to eat! 🙂

Published in: on May 13, 2015 at 7:20 pm  Leave a Comment  
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Rising To The Occasion

Bread again today!
We made focaccia – quicker than the bread we made a couple of weeks ago, so we were able to have it with lunch…
We’ve been having trouble with it rising, since the temperature has been a bit cooler lately. Today was warmer anyway, and we put the dough out in the sun, under a teatowel. We used cheese, onion and rosemary for the topping. Here’s the result 🙂

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Published in: on May 6, 2015 at 4:54 pm  Leave a Comment  
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Baking Day

Tomorrow is Biggest Boy’s birthday – he’ll be 16! We would normally have a full school day, but we’re going out for lunch, and will probably take our time…
Thought I’d try to fit a bit of Wednesday’s normal “classes” into today…
The boys usually do some cooking on a Wednesday afternoon. They’ve been doing dishes for the evening meal, but today we did some baking. Biggest Boy made cheese biscuits (basically – scones) and Littlest Bean made shortbread.

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Both were very nice, and livened up our morning tea. Some of our available ingredients were not quite what the recipe needed, and our set of scales is a bit wobbly… consequently, we didn’t end up with perfect results (the shortbread wasn’t quite shortbread – I think it probably had too much butter. Still tasted very good!) Today was fun! Tomorrow should be too. 🙂

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Published in: on March 17, 2015 at 11:54 pm  Leave a Comment  
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