After reading all about this food I went searching for a recipe and found this at the following website? I'm still looking for the recipe with beef, can't eat pork, I'm diabetic. Also, I'm not a cook so depend on recipes which I can follow. Hope my Bolton grandmother understand and forgive. MyCookBook ... over the origins of it. The people of Lancashire claim it as their own; it's our's , no further ... and historic prince of pies,... the... MEAT AND POTATO PIE . Any recipes, red or white rose will be ... www.mycookbook.co.uk/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=10 Cached page The Unlauded Pie (659 total words in this text) (read: 918 times) These islands of ours have given the world many wonderful pie recipes; steak and kidney pie, melton mowbray pork pie, steak and stout pie, scotch pie, cornish pasties, and the humble but delicious mince beef and onion pie, to name but a few. There is a forgotten pie though, a pie which hasn't been given it's rightful recognition in the culinary world and that is......... wait for it...... the meat and potato pie. The meat and potato pie is a delicious pie with succulently tasty small pieces of beef, melt in your mouth chunks of potato and a light and crisp short crust pastry, so why oh why has it been ignored by everybody excluding the north of England? They are so proud of it "oop north" that another war of roses could begin over the origins of it. The people of Lancashire claim it as their own; it's our's , no further evidence needed, enough said, it's our effin' pie , seems to be their attitude. While in Yorkshire they have boasted about it for centuries. In 1788, a village near Huddersfield called Denby Dale decided to bake the largest meat and potato pie ever known to celebrate, King George III's return to sanity, and the pie may have lasted longer than George's two week remission. He was soon shaking hands and talking with trees again, does this remind you any current member of the royal's? A hint.... this ones going to marry a scientific impossiblity ( well it is at the moment anyway),... a hybrid between a horse and an old trout. Anyway back to the thread, Denby Dale have baked 10 commemorative pies, each larger than the previous. In the month of August 1887 a pie weighing about one and a half tons was baked to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. It contained two very gamey grouse, and what may have been a skinned fox amongst it's ingredients. The pie was considered unfit for human consumption, and with typical British humour, it was given a ceremonial burial. The latest commemorative Denby Dale pie was just five years ago to celebrate the Queen Mothers 100th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the villages only landmark, the viaduct, and it weighed a whopping 12 tonnes. How many tons that is, is beyond my grasp, but it completely surpassed one and a half and it contained no foxes, and you must remember that this was before the current hunting legislation. Staying in Yorkshire, over sixty years ago the acomplished novelist, playwright and Yorkshire man, J.B. Priestly, waxed lyrically on his radio show about Bertha, the huge mechanical meat and potato pie that puffed out billows of steam in the shop window of a Mr Robert's: ".... a giant, almost superhuman meat pie, with a magnificent brown, crisp, artfully wrinkled, succulently- looking crust.... giving off a fine, rich, appetising steam to make your mouth water.... a perpetual volcano of meat and potato." And patriotically he added: "... every puff defying Hitler, Goering and the whole gang of them." Yet less than seventy years later it is the forgotten pie, hardly mentioned south of Birmingham, or north of Cumbria. Search through any recipe website ( apart from the Beeb's.. as late as 2003 ), and it's completely ignored. This delicacy is something all of these islands,nay the whole world should proudly sing from the trees about, the wonderful and historic prince of pies,... the... MEAT AND POTATO PIE . Any recipes, red or white rose will be gratefully received. No in fact they are expected , stop keeping this marvel to yourselves, share it with the world. My dream for a "Mc Pielands," a "Pie Kings" or a "Southern Fried Pie" ( no that's taking it too bloody far ), continues, Gastrick

My grandmother was from Bolton & made this, in my modern version which we love, I make Pot Roast one day & the meat & potato pie from the leftovers the next day. In case Pot Roast isn't the same in UK, a beef roast is put in a slow cooker with potatoes, onions, lots of carrots & dried onion soup mix. It cooks all day & is outstanding. What is left is all put in a plastic bag so the juices can settle in. Next day I cut everything up to eating size, mix it with a can of cream of mushroom soup, dump into a crust, top with a crust & bake until lovely & brown. It gets cut like a pie & eaten quickly here with applesauce. The leftovers from this.... if you have any, reheat beautifully in a microwave... altho' I like it cold, too. The slow cooking makes that deep dark gravy that is so tasty. Sally in TN, USA