Steak and kidney pie

Steak and Kidney Pie

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Steak and kidney pie

The steak and kidney pie is a typical British

British cuisine

English cuisine is shaped by the country's temperate climate, its island geography, and its history. The latter includes interactions with other European countries, and the importing of ingredients and ideas from places such as North America, China, and India during the time of the British Empire and as a result of World War II Immigration t...
dish

Recipe

A recipe is a set of instructions that show how to prepare or make something, especially a culinary dish .Modern culinary recipes normally consist of several components:...
with a filling of diced beef

Beef

Beef is the culinary name for meat from bovines, especially domestic cattle . Beef is one of the principal meats used in the cuisine of Australia, European cuisine and the Americas, and is also important in Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia....
steak

Steak

A steak is a slice of meat, typically beef. Most steaks are cut perpendicular to the muscle fibres, improving the perceived tenderness of the meat....
and beef (ox), lamb

Domestic sheep

Domestic sheep are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates....
's or pig

Pig

Pigs, also called hogs or swine, are a genus of even-toed ungulates within the Family Suidae. The name pig, hog, or swine most commonly refers to the Domestic pig in everyday parlance, but technically encompasses several distinct species, including the Wild Boar....
's kidney

Kidney

The kidneys are Organ that have numerous biological roles. Their primary role is to maintain the homeostasis balance of bodily fluids by filtering and secreting Metabolomics#Metabolitess and minerals from the blood and excreting them, along with water , as urine....
s in a thick sauce

Sauce

In cooking, a sauce is liquid or sometimes semi-solid food served on or used in preparing other foods. Sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to another dish....
. It is often, but not always, a one-crust pie

Pie

A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough shell that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweetness or savoury ingredients....
, which means that the filling is covered but not completely enclosed by the pastry

Pastry

Pastry is the name given to various kinds of baking made from ingredients such as flour, butter, shortening, baking powder or Egg s. Small cakes, tarts and other sweet baked goods are called "pastries"....
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Besides being made fresh in a kitchen or a restaurant, food processing firms offer this foodstuff frozen in a box, or canned (in a tin

Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn and atomic number 50. Tin is obtained chiefly from the mineral cassiterite, where it occurs as an oxide, SnO2....
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The steak and kidney pie is a typical British

British cuisine

Recipe

Beef

Steak

A steak is a slice of meat, typically beef. Most steaks are cut perpendicular to the muscle fibres, improving the perceived tenderness of the meat....
and beef (ox), lamb

Domestic sheep

Domestic sheep are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates....
's or pig

Pig

Kidney

Sauce

Pie

Pastry

Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn and atomic number 50. Tin is obtained chiefly from the mineral cassiterite, where it occurs as an oxide, SnO2....
). Large cans even come in the size and shape of regular pie pans.

The sauce typically consists of beef broth

Broth

Broth is a liquid in which bones, meat, fish, cereal grains, or vegetables have been simmering. Broth is used as a basis for other edible liquids such as soup, gravy, or sauce....
, flavoured with salt

Edible salt

Salt is a dietary mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride that is essential for animal life, but toxic to most land plants. Salt flavor is one of the taste#Basic_tastes, an important Salting_ and a popular food seasoning....
, pepper

Black pepper

Black pepper is a flowering plant vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning....
and parsley

Parsley

Parsley is a bright green, biennial plant herb, also used as spice. It is very common in Middle Eastern cuisine, European cuisine, and American cuisine cooking....
, onion

Onion

Onion is a term used for many plants in the genus Allium. They are known by the common name "onion" but, used without qualifiers, it usually refers to Allium cepa....
s, and thickened with flour

Flour

Flour is a powder made of cereal grains. It is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for many civilizations, making the availability of adequate supplies of flour a major economic and political issue at various times throughout history....
, cornstarch

Cornstarch

Cornstarch, or cornflour, is the starch of the corn grain. It is also grown from the endosperm, or white heart, of the corn seed. It has a distinctive appearance and feel when mixed raw with water or milk, giving easily to gentle pressure but resisting sudden pressure ....
or beurre manié

Beurre manié

Beurre mani? is a dough, consisting of equal parts of soft butter and flour, used to thickening soups and sauces. By kneading the flour and butter together, the flour particles are coated in butter....
. Two-crust steak and kidney pies are best made with hot water crust pastry

Hot water crust pastry

Hot water crust is a type of pastry used for savoury pies, such as pork pies, Game pies and, more rarely, steak and kidney pies. Hot water crust was traditionally used for making hand-raised pies....
, which is less likely to get soaked in sauce, but one-crust pies may also be made with puff pastry

Puff pastry

In baking, a puff pastry is a light, flaky, unleavened pastry containing several layers of fat which is in solid state at 20Celsius ....
or shortcrust pastry

Shortcrust pastry

Shortcrust pastry is a type of pastry often used for the base of a tart or pie. It does not puff up during baking because it usually contains no leavening agent....
.

Steak and kidney pudding

Steak and kidney pudding

File:SteakKidneyPudding.jpgSteak and kidney pudding is a dish made by enclosing diced steak and beef, lambs or pigs kidney pieces in gravy in a suet pastry....
is a similar dish in which the contents are placed into a pudding dish lined and covered with suet

Suet

Suet is raw beef or Lamb fat, especially the hard fat found around the loins and kidneys.Suet has a melting point of between 45? and 50?C....
pastry. The pudding is then steamed for several hours.

In the British Armed Forces

British Armed Forces

The armed forces of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the British Armed Forces or His/Her Majesty's Armed Forces, and sometimes legally the Armed Forces of the Crown, encompasses a Royal Navy, an British Army, and an Royal Air Force....
a pudding is sometimes called a "Baby's Head" and in certain areas of North West England primarily around Wigan

Wigan

Wigan is a large town in Greater Manchester in England. It stands on the River Douglas, south of Preston, west-northwest of Manchester, and east-northeast of Liverpool....
and Leigh, Lancashire a "Babby's Yead" (Baby's Head).

Steak and kidney pie/pudding is also sometimes colloquially known as 'Kate and Sidney pie/pudding', 'Snake and Kiddy pie/pudding' or 'Snake and Pygmy pie/pudding'.

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