Stargazy Pie

6 ingredients
9 steps

Ingredients

  • Pie dough
  • 8 pilchards or herrings
  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 1/4 cup each chopped parsley, fennel and thyme leaves
  • 1 pinch saffron
  • 2 tablespoons milk

Directions

  1. 1
    Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
  2. 2
    Line a pie dish with thinly rolled pie dough.
  3. 3
    Remove fins from fish and wipe off scales.
  4. 4
    Slit and gut them and fill the cavities with chopped onion and herbs.
  5. 5
    Arrange round the dish with heads to the rim.
  6. 6
    Cover with pie dough, and make a slit by each head.
  7. 7
    Pull the heads through the dough.
  8. 8
    Dissolve the saffron in the milk.
  9. 9
    Brush the pie dough with the saffron milk, and bake for about 35 minutes.

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