A World War Two classic that has all but died out. My nan told me about it a few weeks ago and I managed to find a recipe.
This will be a hit with the veggies and really quite a cheap way of feeding a large family.
Unfortunately I'm not professional enough to worry about measurements but it really doesn't matter.
What you need...
Short crust pastry,
6 potatoes
2 onions
Strong cheese
200ml double cream
Spinach
Total cost £4
Feeds up to 8 people.
Sorry about he poor pictures and lack of stages, I forgot until the end to take any!
First up, make your pastry. You need enough to line a sandwich tin about 1cm all the way round. You can see that I should have made about 20% more pastry and it would have gone all the way to the top.
Peel and boil your tatties,
Fry your onions,
Grate your cheese
Stick your tin with the pastry in the fridge while your doing all this.
Put some of the cheese to one side to sprinkle on top...
Break up the tatties, don't mash them, add the onion, cheese and a few handfuls of spinach and lots of salt and pepper.
You can add nutmeg, but I didn't have any and it didn't seem to miss it.
Start adding the mixture to the pie tin. I didn't feel there was enough spinach so I put a in an extra layer half way down.
Add the rest of the mixture. Pour over the double cream and sprinkle the cheese over the top.
In to the oven at 180'C for 40mins.
Bingo.
As with all good vegetarian dishes Homity pie is best served with sausages.
3 of us had seconds and there was still a fair bit left over.
A seriously easy way to impress. Plus if you plan ahead you can get all your washing up done before it comes out the oven.
This will be a hit with the veggies and really quite a cheap way of feeding a large family.
Unfortunately I'm not professional enough to worry about measurements but it really doesn't matter.
What you need...
Short crust pastry,
6 potatoes
2 onions
Strong cheese
200ml double cream
Spinach
Total cost £4
Feeds up to 8 people.
Sorry about he poor pictures and lack of stages, I forgot until the end to take any!
First up, make your pastry. You need enough to line a sandwich tin about 1cm all the way round. You can see that I should have made about 20% more pastry and it would have gone all the way to the top.
Peel and boil your tatties,
Fry your onions,
Grate your cheese
Stick your tin with the pastry in the fridge while your doing all this.
Put some of the cheese to one side to sprinkle on top...
Break up the tatties, don't mash them, add the onion, cheese and a few handfuls of spinach and lots of salt and pepper.
You can add nutmeg, but I didn't have any and it didn't seem to miss it.
Start adding the mixture to the pie tin. I didn't feel there was enough spinach so I put a in an extra layer half way down.
Add the rest of the mixture. Pour over the double cream and sprinkle the cheese over the top.
In to the oven at 180'C for 40mins.
Bingo.
As with all good vegetarian dishes Homity pie is best served with sausages.
3 of us had seconds and there was still a fair bit left over.
A seriously easy way to impress. Plus if you plan ahead you can get all your washing up done before it comes out the oven.
