Eileen is absolutely right, particularly in her later comments. I am from St.Helens originally and have graphic memories of buying Roberts' Meat and Potato pies in their Duke Street shop, together with a Barm cake. Open up the latter and insert the pie - schoolboy heaven during the war years, but watch out for Teachers, it wasn't done to eat in the street in school uniform. They were always tasty, somewhat lacking in meat, but then in the days of food rationing who could complain. Cheap cuts were the key as they were for every meal in those days. Buying meat in the market late on Saturday night was a basic ploy when Butchers had no refrigeration, and can't you remember all the Tripe Dressers and Pork Butchers with their pies. In some ways, good old days. Brian Hope On 10 Sep 2005, at 09:03, Littlmum@aol.com wrote: > we call the meat and potatoes and onions cooked in the brown dish with > a > crust on Hotpot, > > but you can cook the same ingredients in a pan and make a double > crust pie > in a baking tin. > > staple food for Lancastrians usually to make a small amount of the most > expensive ingredient go further by adding the vegetables. > > > Eileen (St Helens, Lancashire) > > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > Manchester Online: http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ > The Friends of Real Lancashire: http://www.forl.co.uk/001/intro.html > Lancashire History and Folklore: http://www.geocities.com/kera2000_uk/ > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >