recipe.exchange

Stargazy Pie

@arecipe.bsky.social

Stargazy pie is a rich fish pie from Cornwall in the United Kingdom.

Ingredients

  • As many fresh Herrings, Pilchards or Mackerel to fill your pie dish
  • Sufficient pastry to cover your dish
  • Fresh chopped parsley
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Up to 6 eggs or ½ pint (300 ml) of cream or top-of-the-milk
  • Fine breadcrumbs
  • Fat bacon rashers (green or smoked to your preference)
  • 2 tbsp tarragon vinegar
  • Butter

Instructions

  1. 1
    Scale, clean, and bone the fish, separating and retaining their heads.
  2. 2
    Season inside each with salt, pepper, and parsley. Roll neatly.
  3. 3
    Butter pie dish, and sprinkle a thick layer of breadcrumbs on.
  4. 4
    Lay in some of the fish, then alternate breadcrumbs and fish until dish is full. Cover with bacon rashers.
  5. 5
    Beat eggs with vinegar, pour into pie, or use cream. Cover with pastry.
  6. 6
    Arrange fish heads on pastry, so as they are looking up (to the stars).
  7. 7
    Bake in a hot oven.
  8. 8
    Serve with a sprig of parsley in mouth of each fish.
Category
Desserts
Method
Baking

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Stargazy_Pie