Tursiops
Monday 3rd November 2008 4:30am
Welwyn Garden City
9,788 posts
Rhubarb is best in a crumble, where the extra sweetness takes the edge off; but I do like an apple pie.
Steak pies are wonderful, in an ale gravy, maybe with mushroom; but my mum put me off kidney as a child, when she casually remarked that they tasted of their function... Shortcrust is much preferable to flakey, but both pale compared to marvel that is a suet pudding.
Chicken pie is also good, either with asparagus or mushroom. Or eaten cold, chicken and ham. A proper Melton Mowbray pork pie also has its merits.
I remember introducing an American companion to the joys of meat pies while travelling in New Zealand; for him it was a moment like first gazing into Chapman's Homer...