Not to be confused with Steak and australia meat pie pie. This article needs additional citations for verification.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. A handmade steak and ale pie. A steak pie is a traditional meat pie served in Britain. It is made from stewing steak and beef gravy, enclosed in a pastry shell. Sometimes mixed vegetables are included in the filling. Steak pies are also available from chip shops, served with normal chips, referred to in Scotland as a steak pie supper.
Other types of steak pie are available around the world, including in Australia and New Zealand. The six best football pies in Britain revealed”. Morecambe Football Club lift top pie awards”. Scottish Hogmanay Customs and Traditions at New Year’ at About Aberdeen. In Australia and New Zealand, a meat pie is a hand-sized pie containing diced or minced meat and gravy, sometimes with onion, mushrooms, or cheese and often consumed as a takeaway food snack. This variant of the standard meat pie is considered iconic.
It was described by New South Wales Premier Bob Carr in 2003 as Australia’s “national dish”. Manufacturers of pies in Australia tend to be state-based, reflecting the long distances involved with interstate transport and lack of refrigeration capabilities in the early years of pie production. Many pies sold ready-to-eat at smaller outlets are sold unbranded and may be locally produced, produced by a brand-name vendor, or even imported, frozen pies heated prior to serving. An Australian meat pie was produced in 1947 by L. Due to its relationship with Australian rules football, Four’n Twenty has iconic status in Victoria.
In South Australia, Balfours and Vili’s have been making pies for over a century. Both of these pie makers supply pies to various venues hosting Australian rules football games. Produced in Western Australia, Mrs Mac’s Pies are sold nationwide, found mostly in service stations and corner stores, competing with other brands in the contested takeaway hotbox market on the basis of quality and fillings other than the normal fare. In Victoria, some of the well known and famous pie makers include the makers of two of Australia’s most famous pies – Four’n Twenty and Patties – both manufactured by Patties Foods in Bairnsdale. In Tasmania, the main manufacturer of pies is National Pies. National Pies make typical beef mince pies, as well as “Cottage Pies”, which are topped with mashed potato. National Pies’ mince pies are rectangular in shape, as opposed to most other brands, which are round.
Australian meat pies were introduced into the United States in 1994 by Mark Allen, of Boort, Victoria, when he and his wife, Wendy, began operation of Pacific Products, Inc. In 1977, during the time that American fast food restaurants moved into New Zealand, Progressive Enterprises created Georgie Pie, a fast food restaurant with a menu based on meat pies. According to a 2003 study, the average Australian eats more than 12 meat pies each a year. According to a 2004 study, the average New Zealander eats 15 meat pies a year. Kangaroo meat, a leaner alternative, is also sometimes used. Started in 1990 and held annually since, the Great Aussie Pie Contest was created to find the best everyday commercially produced meat pie produced in Australia, to promote the higher quality pie production as well as attempting to increase media attention upon the foodstuff, the iconic meat pie often dwarfed by the omnipresent advertising of fast food chains.
Run in parallel to the main contest is one for gourmet pies, with categories for such fillings as chicken, seafood and even vegetarian pies. In New Zealand an annual pie competition has been held since 1997. The Bakels New Zealand Supreme Pie Awards aims to recognise the best pie manufacturers in New Zealand, assisting them in producing award-winning pies and continuing to help foster and encourage developments within this category of baking. The pies were judged on presentation, the pastry on the top and bottom, the filling and the profile.
In the 1970s meat pies were mentioned in an advertising jingle for General Motors Holden Australia, adapted from General Motors’ Chevrolet jingles in the United States. Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand”. Media Watch – Sausage roll policy”.
Meat pies: From ancient fast food to Australian icon”. Meat pies – National Museum of Australia”. Pies de resistance in the Land of the Feed”. Aussie strives to put meat pies into diets of Yankee sports fans”. Beyer, Australian Bakery Cafe, LLC, Gregory. The Australian Bakery Cafe -, The BEST Aussie Meat Pies in America!
2 this puts the sale of meat pies in New Zealand to be 60 million. As New Zealand has a population of 4 million this puts the average consumption per head to 15 per year. What’s in a meat pie – food and drink”. Meat pie: a great Australian dish”. Classic Meat Pies with a chunky beef and Guinness filling. A delicious meat pie recipe with step-by-step photos.
Classic Meat Pies with step-by-step photos. You can find meat pies at nearly all Australian cafés and bakeries, corner shops and supermarkets, but making your own at home from scratch can be very satisfying. And if, like me, you are an expat living in a country where meat pies do not exist, homemade meat pies can be a real joy. There are many variations on how beef stews can be made, some using tomatoes as a base, perhaps red wine for something fancy, or an ale for a rich, dark flavour.