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Steak pie

A steak pie is a traditional meat pie

Meat pie

File:Homemade meat pie.jpgFile:MeatPie.JPGFile:Cornish pasty.jpegA meat pie is a Umami pie with a filling of meat and other savoury ingredients....
served in Britain. It is made from stewing 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 gravy

Gravy

Gravy is a sauce made often from the juices that run naturally from meat or vegetables during cooking. It is a smooth, non-chunky liquid. Ready-made bouillon cube and powders can be used as a substitute for natural meat or vegetable extracts....
, enclosed in a 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"....
shell. Sometimes mixed vegetables are included in the filling. Steak pie is subtly different from Steak and kidney pie

Steak and kidney pie

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A steak pie is a traditional meat pie

Meat pie

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 gravy

Gravy

Pastry

Steak and kidney pie

The steak and kidney pie is a typical British cuisine recipe with a filling of diced beef steak and beef , Domestic sheep's or pig's kidneys in a thick sauce....
. In Ireland Guinness Stout is added along with bacon and onions. It is commonly referred to as a Steak and Guinness Pie (or Guinness Pie for short). In Scotland sausages are traditionally added to the steak. This practice goes back to the days when families could not afford more steak and the pie was padded out with cheaper meat. It is still to this day preferable to have the sausages and many butchers still sell them in large quantities. Many people would argue that the sausage enhances the flavour. The dish is often served with "steak chips" (thickly sliced potatoes fried, sometimes fried in beef dripping). Steak Pies are also available from chip shops

Fish and chips

Fish and chips is a popular take-away food which originated in the United Kingdom. It consists of deep-fried fish in Batter or breadcrumbs with French fried potatoes potatoes....
, served with normal chips

French fries

French fries , chips , fries, or French-fried potatoes are thin strips of potato that have been deep-frying. A distinction is sometimes made between fries and chips; whereby North Americans sometimes refer to any elongated pieces of fried potatoes as fries, while in the UK, long slices of potatoes are sometimes called '...
as a steak pie supper.

A steak pie supper is usually accompanied by salt

Salt

A salt, in chemistry, is defined as the product formed from the neutralisation reaction of acids and base . Salts are ionic compounds composed of cations and anions so that the product is electrically electric charge ....
and vinegar

Vinegar

Vinegar is an acidic liquid processed from the fermentation of ethanol in a process that yields its key ingredient, acetic acid . It also may come in a diluted form....
, however around Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
a combination of spirit vinegar

Acetic acid

Acetic acid, CH3COOH, also known as ethanoic acid, is an organic acid which gives vinegar its sour taste and pungent smell. Pure, water-free acetic acid is a colourless liquid that absorbs water from the environment , and freezes at 16.7 Celsius to a colourless crystalline solid....
and brown sauce

Steak sauce

In the United States, steak sauce is a generic term derived from these pre-made sauces typically being served with steak in restaurants. A1 Steak Sauce is among the most prominent brands sold in the U.S....
, known simply as "sauce" or "chippie sauce", is popular. The precise proportions of each ingredient are unique to each take-away.

Other types of steak pie are available around the world, including in Australia and New Zealand

Australian meat pie

An Australian meat pie is a hand-sized meat pie containing largely Ground beef and gravy sometimes with onion and often consumed as a takeaway food snack....
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