Scotch egg - the substantial meal debate

[aero280 Profile]

The paper this morning made a reference to “Glasgow Salad”. Apparently this is a bag of chips with two pickled onions on top.

[liketocook Profile]

The paper this morning made a reference to “Glasgow Salad”. Apparently this is a bag of chips with two pickled onions on top.

I saw that - that's not a Glasgow salad!!! A Glasgow salad is a munchie box usually containing pakora, onion rings, donner meat, chips, cheese , pizza slice, chicken tikka, various dips and sometimes with a nod to health a tiny portion of limp lettuce/tomato

[aero280 Profile]

That must be a relative of the “double” I saw listed on the chip shop menu in Kilmarnock a few years back. I was on a factory visit and the shop was between two of the factory sites.

Apparently the “double” was £1 extra on any fried item. It was just fried in batter and put on the hot rack. If you asked for the “double”, it was taken out, dipped in batter again and fried a second time!!

Apparently a “double deep fried pizza” was very popular...

[liketocook Profile]

That must be a relative of the “double” I saw listed on the chip shop menu in Kilmarnock a few years back. I was on a factory visit and the shop was between two of the factory sites.

Apparently the “double” was £1 extra on any fried item. It was just fried in batter and put on the hot rack. If you asked for the “double”, it was taken out, dipped in batter again and fried a second time!!

Apparently a “double deep fried pizza” was very popular...

Sounds like a Killie thing (I used to work there) a "double" usually refers to breakfast roll where you can add an extra item to a filled roll e.g. adding a fried tattie scone to a bacon butty. Deep fried pizza is surprisingly good though I've never had it doubled! Did you get the chance to try a "Killie" pie? They are rather good-steak pie filling in a scotch pie pastry case.

[aero280 Profile]

I never tried the Killie pie, we were guests of the company and stayed overnight in Glasgow for the duration of the inspection.

[liketocook Profile]

I never tried the Killie pie, we were guests of the company and stayed overnight in Glasgow for the duration of the inspection.

That's a shame, if you are ever in that neck of the woods again they are definitely worth sampling.

[scullion Profile]

i had a scotch meat pie, from a chip shop in motherwell, when i was about ten - strange pastry.

on second thoughts it might have been montrose.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Randall & Aubin on Brewer Street in Soho, back when they were a butcher's shop sold "Scotch mutton pies" in their deli annexe - they were small pies and the pastry was thin and and crisp, like the pastry on a pork pie but much thinner

Loved that shop, now a seafood restaurant, still called Randall & Aubin, would love to go

This is a recipe for the pies, no idea how good but it looks similar to the Soho version
http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/scottish_ ... ch_Pie.htm

[aero280 Profile]

There was a bakers in Manningtree, Essex that did really nice meat pies. I had to go to a site meeting in that area every week, which meant leaving London really early, so I had a coffee at home, and a meat pie in Manningtree for breakfast. There was a choice of a traditional round meat pipe, or the "Scotch" pipe, which indeed have a thin crisp pastry crust.

[scullion Profile]

yes, they're thin, hot water crust pastry. i can't remember them being that crispy - just a bit strange. didn't need to try another!

[aero280 Profile]

There was a version of the Scotch pie in one area I have lived - can't remember which - which was a sort of open pie, it was topped with piped mashed potato rather than a crust. The potato was put on before the end of baking because it was browned.

[patpoyntz Profile]

There was a version of the Scotch pie in one area I have lived - can't remember which - which was a sort of open pie, it was topped with piped mashed potato rather than a crust. The potato was put on before the end of baking because it was browned.

Called a ‘potato pie’ up here in the Highlands. Mince topped with mash, like a cottage pie in a pastry shell. Not my favourite, but they are very popular. My OH cannot go past the local bakers without buying one, or two!
Macaroni cheese pies are also popular.....

[liketocook Profile]

Yes known as potato pies here too. I like the pastry in a scotch pie, less keen on the filling sometimes though. A decent ones lovely but they can be all grease and pepper. The case should be crispy though, sounds as though the one you had scully was under baked. A decent scotch pie squished in a well buttered roll with a splodge of brown sauce is rare treat for me. Mild chicken curry baked in a scotch pie case is a popular choice in the local baker shops.

[Busybee Profile]

When we lived in Manchester a pie in a bread roll was known as a Wigan kebab!

BB

[scullion Profile]

The case should be crispy though, sounds as though the one you had scully was under baked

the pastry wasn't soggy, it was brown and firm just not what i would describe as crispy - the filling may also have something to do with the avoidance of a second try.
you learn something new every day - it would never occur to me to put a pie in bread. is it a northern thing? didn't purplelove mention a baby's head, wasn't that a pie based thing?

ps. i wonder what she's doing now.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Yes, the pie in bread is a northern thing

Purps has been posting on FB sometimes,m they’ve been doing up a house, looks good

[smitch Profile]

A babies head is a steak & kidney suet pudding.

I worked with someone from Wigan who loved a ‘pie barm’ but it isn’t really a thing in this corner of Greater Manchester.

[Pampy Profile]

Yes, I know snake and pig pudding as "baby's head" too! People from Wigan are often called pie-eaters,