Best 11 Mrs Borgs Traditional Meat Pie Recipes

BRITISH MEAT PIES

Steps:

• Brown 1/2 pound sausage in a skillet with 1/4 cup chopped onion and 1 each diced celery stalk and carrot. Add 1/2 cup mashed potatoes, and salt and pepper. Roll out a can of refrigerated biscuit dough and cut into twelve 3-inch rounds. Top each with a spoonful of meat filling and fold in half; pinch to seal and brush with a beaten egg. Make slits in the top and bake at 350 degrees F until golden, about 15 minutes.

MEAT PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Place the potato in a saucepan with enough water to cover. Bring to a boil, and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Drain, mash, and set aside.
• Meanwhile, crumble the ground beef and pork into a large saucepan, and add the garlic, onion and water. Season with mustard powder, thyme, cloves and salt. Cook over medium heat, stirring to crumble the meat and mix in the spices, until the meat is evenly browned. Remove from the heat, and mix in the mashed potato.
• Place one of the pie crusts into a 9 inch pie plate. Fill with the meat mixture, then top with the other pie crust. Prick the top crust a few times with a knife to vent steam. Crimp around the edges using the tines of the fork, and remove any excess dough. Cover the edges of the pie crust with aluminum foil.
• Bake for 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the crust has browned. Serve by itself, or with a beef gravy.

GOOD OLD MEAT PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). On a lightly floured surface, roll the pie crust out into a 12 inch circle. Set aside.
• Melt margarine in a saucepan over medium heat. Add potato and onion, and cook until the onion is tender, but not brown. Sprinkle the flour over the mixture, and stir to blend. Season with oregano, black pepper and garlic powder. Pour in the beef broth, and add the peas, carrot and beef. Bring to a boil. Transfer the mixture to a 2 quart casserole dish, and place the pastry over the top. Cut slits for steam, and flute the edges.
• Place on a baking sheet, and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until crust is golden. Let stand 10 minutes before serving to thicken.

FRENCH MEAT PIE

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, cook the beef, pork and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. , In a small bowl, combine potatoes and seasonings. Roll out half of pastry to fit a 9-in. pie plate; trim pastry even with edge of plate. Fill with meat mixture. , Roll out remaining pastry to fit top of pie; place over filling. Trim, seal and flute edges. Cut slits in pastry. Brush with egg if desired. Bake at 375° for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown.

TRADITIONAL MEAT PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Pie Crust: Mix flour and shortening. Add salt and cold water. Add all the cold water at once and mix delicately. Form a ball and refrigerate for 2 hours.
• Once dough is chilled, flour your worktop. Divide dough in half. Roll out 2 pie crusts. One should be slightly larger than the other, this will be your bottom crust.
• Meat Filling: Heat the oil in a large pot. Add the pork and onion and cook over medium-low heat for 45 minutes, stirring often. When pork is cooked remove fat from pan. Add grated potato, salt, pepper, and allspice, to taste. Stir well, and let mixture rest for 20 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Butter the bottom of 9-inch pie plate. Place the bottom crust in the pie plate and poke several holes in the crust with a fork. Make sure an ample amount of crust spills over the edges of the pie plate. Fill the crust with the meat mixture. Level with a spatula. Wet edges of bottom crust and place top crust over meat mixture. Press top crust onto meat mixture to eliminate any air holes. Beat together the egg and the milk to make an egg wash. Pinch the crust edges together and brush the top crust with the egg wash.
• Bake for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F and continue baking for 15 minutes or until crust is golden brown.
• Slice and serve hot or cold.

MRS BORG'S TRADITIONAL MEAT PIE

Steps:

• Heat oil in pan, add onions and cook over low heat until soft.
• Add meat to pan, followed by the rest of ingredients (except flour and egg glaze).
• Stir well until beef mince is cooked. Stir in flour for 1 minute Bring to boil.
• Reduce heat to simmer, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking till liquid has evaporated.
• Remove from pan and leave to cool.
• Preheat oven to 220 deg celsius.
• Place pastry sheet into the dish and add cool filling on top.
• Brush pie edge with egg glaze and place the second pastry sheet over, pressing the edges gently to seal them.
• Cut two small slits in the pastry to allow steam to escape during baking.
• Brush top with egg.
• Bake for 15-20 min at a lowered 180 deg or until golden brown.

MRS MIGGIN'S PIE SHOPPE - OLD ENGLISH BACON AND EGG PIE!

Steps:

• Heat oven to 190ºC, 370ºF, Gas Mark 5. Line a 20 cm (8 inch) ovenproof plate or foil baking dish.
• Mix flour and salt in basin, rub in fat.
• Using a knife to cut and stir, mix with cold water to form a stiff dough.
• Turn dough on to a floured surface and knead lightly.
• Roll out and use as required below.
• Divide the pastry into 2, roll out and line the plate.
• Grill or fry bacon until crisp - drain off the fat. Add bacon to the beaten eggs along with the seasoning and herbs if used.
• Pour mixture onto pastry, dampen edges and cover with the second round of pastry.
• Seal edges and decorate with pastry leaves. Make a hole in the centre and brush with beaten egg or milk.
• Bake for about 35-40 minutes until golden brown.
• Serve warm or cold.
• Can be frozen for up to 1 month - defrost overnight on a cooling tray or rack. Can be re-heated in a slow oven if required.

MEDIEVAL MEAT PIE

Steps:

• Broil the meat till very rare, but cooked through.
• Cut it into small cubes.
• Mix with all other ingredients except the pie shell.
• For the broth, just add enough to make the mixture a little wetter.
• Put the mixture into the pie shell.
• Be sure the shell lid is sealed, and punch some holes in the top with a knife.
• Bake at 350 F for 45 minutes to an hour, till the shell is golden brown.
• Makes 6-8 slices, and can be served any temperature.
• It's easiest to cut when cold.

TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS MEAT PIE

Steps:

• Cut boil and mash potatoes with a bit of milk and set aside.
• In a very large pot combine meat with salt, pepper, onion, celery flakes and all seasonings and simmer on med to low heat for 1 hour. Stir occasionally.
• Once cooked drain liquid from meat mixture and replace with water and add potatoes.
• Mix well and refrigerate over night.
• Prepare pastry and divide dough for 6 double crust pies.
• Refrigerate pastry over night.
• Next morning roll pastry, line pie plates and fill with meat mixture and top with pastry. Cut a few slits in top crust and brush with egg wash. (To make egg wash.
• beat 1 egg with a tbsp of milk.).
• Bake at 425* for 25-30 minute.
• Cool and freeze in freezer bags up to 6 months.
• Reheat from frozen at 350* for 45-50 minute.

MERSEYSIDE MEAT PIE

Steps:

• Brown beef with onion.
• Add diced potatoes, carrots, beef bouillon cubes, worcestershire sauce.
• COVER with enough water to barely cover potatoes.
• Cover and simmer 20-25 minutes until potatoes are tender.
• Add flour/water mixture and stir until mixture boils and thickens (depending upon how much water you put in at beginning, you may want to add more flour/water mixture; filling should be nice and thick (like a pot pie filling).
• Add lots of freshly ground pepper and salt if desired (I omit the salt).
• Let filling cool until lukewarm or refrigerate.
• Roll out pastry and put into a 9 inch pie plate.
• Put COOLED filling into shell, filling it nice and full.
• Top with second pastry and crimp edges.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Brush egg wash on top of crust.
• Continue baking for about 15 minutes or until crust is golden.

FRENCH MEAT PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*.
• Sauté ground beef and pork with onions until no longer pink.
• In another pan boil and mash potatoes with garlic powder, salt and pepper.
• Do not drain fat from ground meat mixture.
• Add crumbled soda crackers, cinnamon, thyme, sage and mix well, the crackers help absorb a lot of the moisture and gives it great taste and texture.
• Next add mashed potatoes and mix well. I cool this before putting in crust but it isn't necessary if your baking it right away.
• Use a deep dish 9 or 10 inch pie plate and line bottom with 1 crust.
• Fill crust and then place second crust over filling, press edges together to seal: cut slits in top crust.
• Bake for 30-40 minutes or until golden brown.
• This recipe may be made ahead of time and baked later, up to 24 hours ahead as long as kept refrigerated.
• Also can be frozen after prepared for a later date.
• I have started making this in 2 smaller foil pie pans and freeze one for another time. Each pie feeds 4 or 2 with leftovers.