loose potato pie
 

For the past 4 years I've worked in Preston and the other day mentioned loose potato pie - to blank stares and puzzled expressions.

The team I work with are predominantly from the Preston /Chorley area but even 2 people who live in Darwen and Guide had never heard of it.

We then got into a discussion that a pie was only a pie if encased in pastry although Shepherds Pie, Cottage pie and Fish Pie would seem to buck this theory

People then claimed loose potato pie is hotpot although I would argue potato pie is made with beef and hotpot with lamb

Is scouse the same as loose potato pie?

What do these people eat when they go to a "do" if spud pie is not available!!!

Similarly dabs appears to be a very localised name for potato in batter with them being known as Scollops out Preston way and "Muffins" in Edenfield area

anybody else aware of name of food variations

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Loose potato pie, ya never heard of it, prata pie as its better known, there used to be a pie shop in ossy called Jimmy Stivves pie shop, had a cafe as well, went in many a lunchtime and order 8 a loose, that was 8 penath of prata pie. Basically its potato pie made in a great big dish without crust, used to make crust separately, good stuff. That old saying they don't make um like they used too certainly applies here:D

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This is a very complicated area for study. There are both geographical and family differences in names for the same, or similar products.

Before I came to the Fylde, I knew there were muffins and teacakes.Some of the latter had currants in.A muffin might also have been an over-bottomer. Arriving here, I heard of baps. There's also rolls, which are a diferent shape to teacakes/baps. This thread will go on and on.

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Annie's Cafe in the Arcade sells "loose potato pie" almost every day - always seems to be on the menu when I get my "bacon on toasted currant teacakes"

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"Loose potato pie", or "Stewed potatos", was traditionally a Monday dish, easy to make on a busy day which was normally "Wash Day" and the remains of the Sunday joint was used up whether it was beef or lamb.

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I've just remembered another Fylde word for them - barm cakes.

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T cakes, buns, baps, barms

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In Blackburn in the 60's you could get a pint a potato pie and a woman for thirty bob only complaint was----Not much meat int' potato pie.:hehetable

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yeh probably still can fer a fiver.:D

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and change for the bus home!!

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Ya was a rare treat in Thoud Bank where the ladies had a price on the soles of their shoes:D:D prata pie was extra

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No Hedman, Scouse is a stew believed to have it's ancestry in the Scandinavian Labskause a traditional dish of mariners, so more akin to hotpot than potato pie. Mainly made of Beef & Veg but other meat can be used, dependent on budget. :)


The Original Scouse Recipe (aka LOBSCOUSE or LABSKAUSE)

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And blind scouse is scouse without any meat......a stew of just veg and barley........if you got that you knew that the state was in a bad country(i.e. you were really poor).

My potato pie has a top crust, and is usually made with corned beef......if it has no crust it is tater hash.

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i mentioned loose potato pie to a friend from prestwich earlier - she's never heard of it! i also had to explain what broth was the other month :confused:

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I've had loose potato pie in there, served with no crust, because they'd 'run out'.

Therefore it wasn't loose spud pie at all, but a plate full of stew.

Loose potato pie is cooked with a pastry lid, which is then cut up and served with the filling, therefore it's a pie.

Fish, cottage, shepherd's pies are all cooked with lids, which happen to be mashed potato rather than a pastry.

A pie is anything cooked, or baked, with an edible lid.

Master Bun.