On 9/26/2017 12:45 PM, notbob wrote:
> OK, I've succumbed! I'm wanna try Brit baking!!
>
> Can any Brit regulars recommend Paul Hollywood's new cookbook, Pies
> and Puds?
>
> I usta have the cookbook companion to the Aubrey/Maturin series of
> novels (P. O'Brian), but it was too dang ancient. Even the authors
> admitted they had probs trying to authenticate such items as, "Soused
> Pig Face(?) and "sea pie", fer example.
>
> PH's new cookbook is a bit more modern. I wanna learn about "stk &
> kidney" pies, "pasties", and hot-crust "pork pies". etc. So I'm
> asking the "limey" contingent, here in rfc, does the new PH cookbook
> actually deliver?
>
> nb
>
nb, I do wish you'd stop referring to British posters as "limey's".

Sorry I don't know who Paul Hollywood is.

As for steak & kidney pie, I first saw a recipe for it in 'The Good
Housekeeping Cookbook' circa 1978. My father gave the cookbook to me
for my 18th birthday. I like to read cookbooks so I remembered that
book had a recipe for it. Steak & Kidney Pie always sounded intriguing.

I've never been able to find kidneys. Not beef or lamb kidneys. Not
even at the butcher shop in town which is co-owned by a woman from the
UK and her Southern US husband. LOL She says she can't get kidneys.
This is a regional thing. But the recipe for Steak & Kidney Pie is easy
enough to find.

Jill