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I'm not promising this is an analgesic, nor will it give some sleepy people a whole bunch of 'get up and go' ( 😉 ), but it is a pie based on a [b]full English breakfast[/b]!!!
Following on from an idea sprung from these four walls of the forum, rather than spend the day revising, I have been masterfully creating the most splendid of culinary concoctions....
The (non exhaustive) list of ingredients is as follows....
-between 5 and 7 sausages (6) - butcher's finest
-some streaky bacon
-a few eggs (hard boiled or it will be messy)
-tin 'o' beans
-'shrooms and 'omatoes
-homemade shortcrust pastry
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The sausages and veg ready for roasting...
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Mmmmm - bacon... Prior to being crispified
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250g of plain flour, 110g of cubed butter, and salt. Whizz it up, then add about 60ml of cold water - nice! (wrap in film and chill for about 30min)
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Thus far the meat is cooked, and the pastry is chillin'...
Will update once all ingredients are ready to come together!
My long suffering wifey has an inkling we'll be having this for tea tonight - lots of loud sighs seem to be coming from her direction about the whole subject TBH (oi oi, not [i]that[/i] kind of sigh...)
DrP
Why can't you just use raw eggs, bind the whole thing together and will cook fine?
Edit: top marks for the rest, though!
i doff my cap.
i have in mind a hot water pastry breakfast pie. nomnomnom
That is just making me salivate!
Oh you know how to build the suspense don't you, you little tease!
Look, the man's obviously an artist of quite considerable talent, let him do it his own way.
Dr P, this is a wonderful idea, which could have considerable benefits for the whole of humanity.
What's in the sausages btw?
Not heard from WCA on here since Hit the North. You've not gone all Sweeny Tod on him, have you?
This looks awesome! Never made or wanted to make pies, I do now!
I'm going to give this a go at the weekend for sure! 😀
Breakfast Pie. Inspired.
interesting....
I await further updates. won't the beans uncrisp the bacon though?
Oh My!
This is why I love STW 😀
[b]O!M!G![/b]
Never mind finding a cure for cancer! This is the kind of research that we need
Have you any idea how hungry I am now DrP?
Monday is known as Pie Monday in our house. For fairly un-cryptic reasons. I have to come up with something to compete with this weeks gorgeous beef with cheesy dumplings pie. DrP - I think you have provided the answer. I thank you sir
A pic for inspiration:
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applauds efforts
Looks good, but I think my idea for the Full English Smoothie(tm) is better.
Now, where did I leave my blender?
You sir, are a genius!
The sandwich shop down the road has introduced me to the 'regular meal, but wrapped in pastry' craze. Current fave is a lasagne pie. Om nom nom...
you bastid DrP......i am now on the idiet, and have just eaten a cold 3 bean salad with a can of tuna.
but that looks fanatastic...........enjoy it, and i hope you get heartburn 😉 😆
They should put your face on money AND give you your own theme music, that looks ace...
steak and black pud at the local bakers back home ! now thats a pie 😀
Genius.
Want.
I seem to be down a sausage (licks lips shamefully).....
Pastry all rolled and just being pre baked (180deg for about 15 min)...
DrP
Those beans don't look like Heinz.
What could have been a 10/10 with gold star and "Chufty Badge" is going to end up a 3/10.
Sorry.
sorry DrP - I'm going to have to deduct marks for actually appearing to know what you're doing in the kitshed
8/10
Interactive feedback time.....
To leave the sausages/bacon whole, or cut into chunky chunks....?
DrP
-1 for no potato based product. Apart from that it looks like a winner.
..actually [b]appearing[/b] to know what you're doing ...
Appearing to know, and actually knowing, is a skill I've finely honed....
Arrrg - [b]SO[/b] angry at myself - was at the farm shop this morning, eyeing up the hash browns!!!! Curses!!
Well, always a place for MK2...
DrP
Chunky chunks definitely DrP
chunky chunks - always chunky chunks
Heinz beans are oversweetened.
Frankly, their use is a sign of immaturity, weakness of character and moral turpitude.
Just sayin' like.
whole, I'd ditch the bacon tbh, if you're putting a lid on the pie the bacon will go soggy and nasty.
also, a sausage poking out the top is essential...
Frankly, their use is a sign of immaturity, weakness of character and moral turpitude.
That's me told. I feel a flounce coming on.
sausage chunks for me.
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Thread of the Year
dof's cap to
Sir DrP CBE*
(*Chief Baking Experimenter)
The bacon will add a lot of flavour - keep it in but chop it up.
I've used chorizo chunks in something similar - excellent
Definitely chunks.
And next time top with hash browns.
Is it lunchtime yet?
The man is a genius.
Cheat?
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+1 for thread of the year, its going to be really hard to stomach the 'healthy' salad that the SO has prepared for lunch... one of the rare occasions that we have to work together and DrP has to put me throught hell!
Right......
First things first - I've convinced the wife that there's no way I could wait until this evening to devour this, so it's [b]pie for lunch - on a wednesday - am I mad.....?![/b].
Secondly, it's all sorted, in the oven, having the final bake....
Just to get the salivary glands oozing, here's the story thus far....
All ingredients cooked and ready for assembly. I could have done with about twice the amount of pastry, as it shrunk a bit as was stretched thin...Oh well...
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A close of of my sausage and ouefs...
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Half the 'dry' ingredients
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Add some beans and 'shrooms to the equation
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And the final dish...
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Note the homage to a certain Desperate Dan, and also the 'warning' bacon (alerts inquisitive vegetarians to the impending meatyness...).
I once saw someone paint milk onto the lid, so that's what I've done, and popped it into the oven for about a Simpsons episode and a half....
Will keep a close eye to ensure my creation doesn't burn!
DrP
God I'm hungry.
Still think you should've gone with uncooked eggs, though.
eeeeeeeeeeeep!
Not since the great days of 42....A close of of my sausage and ouefs...
yes please!
I'm stuck in a two hour meeting at work. Lunch is at home and I am now drooling with hunger at seeing your mighty creation.
Dammit. Dammit to heck!
So want.
absolutely inspired!
I am making one of those bad boys this weekend 8)
Even my intense disliking of baked smegma beans and the absence of anything proper, like black/brown pudding, does not mask the genius of this dish. Gonna have to do it myself now 🙂
You need some baking beans or blind rice to prevent pastry shrinkage mind - you can get more filling in then 8)
this thread has made me moist
Jeez! That is a thing of beauty right there! That ha sto be the King of pies..
Most eagerly await the next pic update.. I swear i can smell it baking!
Sooooo, hungry........ 😯
Amazing.
For my lunch I've got a lovely home-cooked beef goulasch. And on any other day, that'd be pretty much perfect
But in light of DrP's activity, it now just isn't going to cut it
Here...
we.....
go.....
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The salad was necessary as there's ladies present.....
Bon apetit!
DrP
Mmmm, want!
that looks fantastic..........you lucky sod 8)
wheres the brown sauce? Looks nice tho, although would have preferred a fried egg (of some sort) with mine rather than boiled
Genie-us..!
Off to have my veggie bean stew for lunch. *Wonders if the canteen has any pastry and sausages*
[b]OH!... MY!!... GOD!!![/b]
DrP that is possibly the most desirable thing I have ever seen. You are an utter genius, sir!
I'm doing one of those for next weeks Pie Monday. If I can wait that long. I doubt I will
Oi!
WHERE IS THE BLACK PUDDING????
Well?
MkII needs black pudding methinks. However Genius idea and great effort! Is there enough to share? Where are you?
Oh no, it's a TRAP!!!
All that talk of English breakfast in pie form, then sneaking salad onto the plate.
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ouch!
That is amazing, even though I am vegetarian!
that is just stunning.. simply stunning
I'd have put a bit of black pud in there as well, but each to there own..There is a very strong chance I'm making that this weekend.!
[bows and tips cap...]
Cheers for the comments!!!
The proof is in the tasting of course, and it was pretty scrummy, I tell thee!
Many of the suggestions duly noted - MK2 will endeavor to include black pudding, and I'll see if hash browns can sneek in too (though I was thinking of swapping the pastry topping with a hash brown/rosti topping perhaps?)
My tips/feedback on the whole experience:
-continue to use [b]top quality meat[/b] - the sausages were delicious, and despite my reservations, there was literally no grease in the pie at all
-cooking everything beforehand too (roasting sausages and mushrooms, and grilling bacon) really added to the flavour
-[b]the bacon stayed crispy[/b]!!!
-boiled eggs were great - I personally don't think breaking a raw one in would have worked - may not have cooked? The texture of the cooked yolk was stunning!
-shortcrust pastry is actually pi$$ easy to make, and costs pennies! Use the quantities quoted in the OP, but perhaps twice as much for deeper dishes (you can see mine is quite shallow, and there wasn't enough really).
As I was munching through the beans, pastry, and sausage, I was pondering the idea of a [b]"Full Sunday Roast Pie"[/b]........
TBC
DrP
How about one for the drunken munchies.......2am Saturday morning........"Doner Kebab and chips Pie" . It would make sense and be irresistible but only after a skinful.
iApprove
I too would go for beaten raw eggs
Poured in via a funnel as the last ingredient
Amazing!
Filth, absolute filth.
I would add black pudding and remove the beans, you would use more tomato for moisture.
But really, these are minor things and that is truly a beautiful creation. Well done that man.
A work of genius - flawed only by the salad.
Oh my....
(+1 for black pudding and a hash-brown topping though)
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I'll take your pie and raise you a full-English Yorkshire Pudding:
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Bacon, sausage, black pudding, tomatoe, egg & cheese. In batter.
Sir I salute you, that is excellent, but agree with the addition of black pudding though.
though I was thinking of swapping the pastry topping with a hash brown/rosti topping perhaps?
Would be a crime against pie-hood & a blot on your masterpiece
It is not a pie, no it's not, unless it has pastry all around the contents!
oh my, this is getting better and better. Outstanding stuff.
'tomatoe'?
Raw tomato, almost raw black pudding, weird yellow gunge 'cheese'.
/does not want.
Hash browns are not an ingredient in a full english. Sauted potatoes are permitted. Pies are not pies unless they have a pastry lid. No lid = QUICHE!
😉
me thinks this thread will run longer than the bivi one !
tomatoe was cooked, but not crisped.
and there's nowt awrong with raw black pudding. its been cooked once anyway.
Cheese is a little odd I'll admit. Reminiscent of a pie I had in Australia once: steak, bacon, cheese and egg.
But ultimatly, Yorkshire Pudding for breakfast isn't totally normal is it?
That looks fabulous. I may attempt a vegetarian version using one of these bad boys.
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I word of warning though... a pie without a pastry lid is a quiche.