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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Bread And Biscuits

We’ve been baking this week! Wednesday we did a simple bread recipe – we’ve been watching one of the River Cottage series and decided to try it…
photo (48)The dough after the first proving – the boys each did their own loaf.
photo (49)Waiting to go in the oven…
photo (50)Yum! 🙂
photo (51)Lovely hot from the oven, with butter (and maybe a little bit of honey)

Since tomorrow is Anzac Day, we made Anzac biscuits today, to a basic recipe from “The Commonsense Cookery Book”. We sampled some today, but left the rest for tomorrow..
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Published in: on April 24, 2015 at 11:22 pm  Leave a Comment  
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