[Sca-cooks] Star gazey pie recipe

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Olwen the Odd wrote:

> Dorothy Hartley, in _Food in England_ has a drawing of a "stargazy" pie
> (made of pilchards) along with several other dough-wrapped fish
> presentations.  She doesn't give an origin, however.

A friend of mine who is married to a Cornwall man and living in England
(although I think they're in East Anglia...) says that Stargazy Pie is
traditional in Cornwall. The Reading Rainbow that I saw that had _The
Mousehole Cat_ (pronounced "mausal", btw) also said that it was
traditional.

Margaret