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Rob wrote:Carol's cooked her own dish and said it's delicious!! Unbelievable!!
Northern Lassie's polished off the crisps and it's time for another bottle!!??
How are we going to judge this properly?

Northern Lass wrote:Ok that's it the Poll has ended! the results are in! and Yes the Fish Pie
is the Winning Dish we are all gonna cook!

So on the 19th - 25th January 2009

we are going to cook this dish
any day or night of that week you like
then the following week all say what we thought....exciting aint it!

The people so far taking part are....

Northern Lass
Rob
Gardener
Di
Mally

but it aint too late to get yer pinny on...so come on let me have your name to add to the list-
and hey wots a little food poisoning!
Joking Carol xx


and here is how you cook it!

Carol wrote:Recipe .
350g/12 oz White fish fillet
350g/12 oz smoked haddock fillet
600 ml/ 1 pint of milk plus extra for glazing
65g/ 2 1/2 oz butter (that's 2 and a half)
25 g/ 1 oz plain flour
salt
pepper
30 ml / 2 tablespoons of chopped parsley
2 hard boiled eggs
75g /3 oz Cheddar cheese- (but I expect more is even better )
175g/6 oz self raising flour
10 ml/2 teaspoons dry mustard

Oven 220 C, 425 F, Gas Mark 7
Cooking time 25-30 minutes
Fillet pieces of fish and remove skin
Put fish in frying pan and add 450 ml/1/4 pint of milk
Simmer and poach for 5 minutes until firm but not cooked though
Remove fish (but reserve the milk for later) and flake fish into bite size chunks
Melt 25g/1 oz of butter in saucepan, stir in flour and milk used from cooking fish. Bring sauce to the boil and season with salt and pepper.
Remove from heat and add fish and parsley to sauce. Chop eggs and add to sauce.
Place mixture in ovenproof dish
Grate the cheese
Place self raising flour in bowl and rub in butter. Add grated cheese and mustard, salt and pepper. Mix in remaining milk to make soft dough and roll out. Cut circle into 8 wedges and use to decorate top of oven dish in a sort of spreading out circle
(No doubt variations are acceptable here) on the decorating theme
Glaze with milk and at this stage I recommend more grated cheese over the top but this is not in the original recipe-but you can't have too much cheese.
Bake in oven

Carol wrote:No problem at all Rob-my fish was unlabelled white fish from the freezer-think it was unsmoked Cod.
I am sure Edam will be just as suitable but for me I like the extra extra strong mature variety-and it's still not strong enough so I just shovel in a bit extra