Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On 1/31/06, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What are the usual ingredients in a meat pie? AFOAA (a friend of
an acquaintance) has opened up a restaurant in Austin selling
Australian-style meat pies, and I'd like to find out before I trek
all the way down there whether or not I'm likely to be able to eat
them (weird assortment of food allergies). I could as Justin (the
acquaintance) but I figured our resident Aussies would be a more
knowledgeable source if information.
I'm not Aussie, but typically an Australian Meat Pie would have cubed
or minced steak, salt and pepper, beef stock, flour, soy sauce or or
Worcestershire sauce, egg yolk (sometimes mixed with a small amount
milk or sugar for glazing the pastry), puff pastry, and water. Some
recipes add thinks like onions, cornstarch, bacon, tomato sauce or
ketchup. The most common "secret ingredient" is anywhere between a
pinch and a dash of nutmeg (it really does go with almost anything),
but some cooks will add garlic, cayenne, chili powder, or spices of
that ilk. Some cooks also add veggies, but a purist would turn up
her nose at that :-)
Hth,
Mauro
I think it does. Beef, then, with the possibility of bacon, and
vegetable matter I can live with. I'd need to check into the bacon/no
bacon question, but that's easy enough to ask about at the restaurant, I
think.
Thank you!
(Any Aussies still wanting to weigh in, your input would be appreciated!)
Julia
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