Category: main dishPrice: Ingredients: Pie filling (water, beef, beef fat, wheat flour, wheat starch, potato, pepper), Pastry (wheat flour, water, lard, salt), Seasoning (salt, barley flour, onion, pimento, yeast extract, tetrasodium diphosphate, colour, pepper, dextrose, cayenne pepper), Paste glaze (vegetable oil, hydrogenated vegetable oil, acidity regulator, colour, milk proteins, emulsifier. Scotch pies are a Scottish version of the ubiquitous British meat pie. It is generally made from ground beef or mutton, spiced and wrapped in a pie crust so that it can be eaten on the go, as a street food or sold at sporting events, etc. They are known in some regions as mince pies. Not to be confused with the mincemeat pies eaten at Christmas. Those are a whole nother thing. They smell spicy and oily, like an American sausage. When I took them out of the oven, I asked my husband, "Is there supposed to be grease bubbling out of the top?" He said, "With Scotch pies, yes." They aren't much to look at, but they're not horrible like haggis or anything. The crust has a texture like that of most American pies, as opposed to the flaky puff pastry of a cornish pasty. The filling tastes like sausage. In fact, the only way I can really describe it is "sausage stuffed in pastry". The filling is a bit squishy and soft, and the crust is a bit hard and tough. Overall, not too bad. I'd eat them again, as long as they're served with plenty of vegetables, as they contain none. Not exactly health food, but fairly tasty.
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