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Stargazy Pie

Stargazy Pie — a pie and tart recipe, 10 ingredients.

Pie and tart

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Ingredients

Units: US Metric
Scale: ½× – 4× with Plus →
  • 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
Make it lactose-friendly
  • Up to 6 eggs or ½ pint (300 ml) of cream or top-of-the-milk → lactose-free cream or coconut cream
  • Butter → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil

Swaps are suggestions, not medical advice. Check labels if lactose is a serious issue for you.

Steps

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

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Source

Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0