Book of Pies

The National Trust
A hearty and comforting recipe book with instructions to create 55 delicious sweet and savoury pies. Drawing on the history and heritage of the Trust’s properties and tried-and-tested favourites from their café’s, discover signature flavours, such as the sausage-meat-rich, National Trust’s multi-layered Picnic Pie; alongside a popular vegan recipe for Sweet Potato and Cauliflower Curry Pies. With chapters for meat, poultry, game, fish, vegetables, fruit, plus spices, nuts and chocolate: the book will inspire your cooking all year round. Discover a modern twist on a cheese and onion pie recipe from 1591 and a 15th century traditional Sweet Cheese Raisin Pye; or discover global flavours with Moroccan-style Chicken Croustade, or Pecan Pie. Dotted with quirky pie history, colourful hand-drawn illustrations capture some of the crowd-pleasing recipes. With metric ingredients measures and practical directions, plus a crash course in making the perfect shortcrust, laminated, and rough puff types of pastry. An inspiring collection of flavours, mixing British classics and contemporary tastes.

Hardback
19.5 x 14cm
176 pages
With colour illustrations for some recipes
FSC accredited paper