Stargazey / Stargazy / Star Gazy / Starry-gazy Pie
Mark Hix's, South-west England, wonderful rabbit & crayfish stargazy pie
~ minus the usual pilchards crayfish look out of this pie - - -
from the BBC 2 television programme 'The Great British Menu', 2007
"Stargazy pie is a Cornish dish made of baked pilchards (sardines) and 5 other kinds of fish covered with a pastry crust. The pilchards are arranged with their tails toward the center and their heads poking up through the crust around the edge, so that they appear to be gazing skyward."
"Star Gazy Pie is a dish unique to Mousehole (a fishing village in West Cornwall with a most beautiful harbour). Prepared in the Ship Inn, ate on 23rd December- Tom Bawcock's Eve. Long ago Winter storms had prevented the fishing boats putting to sea. In a lull in the bad weather one of their number Tom Bawcock managed to catch enough fish to prevent the village from starving. A pie of many fishes was made from the catch -Star Gazy Pie."
"Nancy Kerr & James Fagan: Starry Gazy Pie"
Fellside Recordings, 1997
Review: The Living Tradition
http://www.folkmusic.net/htmfiles/webrevs/fecd127.htm
Promotional bios ~
http://www.emergingmusic.co.uk/artists/kerr_fagan/kerr.pdf
# Posted on May 15th 2007 by ceolachan
Stargazey / Stargazy / Star Gazy / Starry-gazy Pie
Mark Hix's, South-west England, wonderful rabbit & crayfish stargazy pie
~ minus the usual pilchards crayfish look out of this pie - - -
from the BBC 2 television programme 'The Great British Menu', 2007
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/rabbitandcrayfishsta_86327.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargazy_pie
"Stargazy pie is a Cornish dish made of baked pilchards (sardines) and 5 other kinds of fish covered with a pastry crust. The pilchards are arranged with their tails toward the center and their heads poking up through the crust around the edge, so that they appear to be gazing skyward."
http://www.cornishlight.co.uk/fish-recipe.htm
"Star Gazy Pie is a dish unique to Mousehole (a fishing village in West Cornwall with a most beautiful harbour). Prepared in the Ship Inn, ate on 23rd December- Tom Bawcock's Eve. Long ago Winter storms had prevented the fishing boats putting to sea. In a lull in the bad weather one of their number Tom Bawcock managed to catch enough fish to prevent the village from starving. A pie of many fishes was made from the catch -Star Gazy Pie."
# Posted on May 15th 2007 by ceolachan