meat pie

plural meat pies · alternative meat-pie · alternative meatpie

1. countableuncountablenon-idiomatic usagecookingA pie containing meat.

   My sister-in-law from Corsica makes the best quiche and the best meat pie in the world.

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   If flour ran short we can be certain it was saved for gravies, dumplings, cakes and gingerbread, and pie crust, and most particularly for meat pie.

   1960, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Seedtime on the Cumberland, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, page 418

   She averted her eyes, looking toward Crispin, who ate meat pie and a large slice of roasted ox with healthy relish and without seeming to notice her discomfort.

   1995, Flora Speer, For Love and Honor, Dorchester Publishing, →ISBN, page 26

   In the case of meat pies that have a jelly or stock added after cooking, the stock and meat should be sampled separately as well as together in a combined sample.

   1998, W. F. Harrigan, Laboratory Methods in Food Microbiology, page 220

   Meat pies, which used to be a traditional Acadian Christmastime treat, are one of Louisiana′s least-touted specialties.

   2009, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late: And the Very Best Places to Eat Them, page 179

   It was to Liubotyn station that I and my best mate Sasha once ventured on our lives' first (meaning without the adults) train ride. […] We got off at Liubotyn, then sleepy and unmistakeably rural, bought a couple of wrinkled meat pies at a station kiosk, and got back on the train.

   2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 46

2. AustraliaNew ZealandcountableuncountableA hand-sized pot pie containing largely minced meat and gravy and typically consumed as a takeaway food snack.

   If you think the major ingredient in most meat pies is meat you’re in for a disappointment. But some brands are meatier than others.

   2006 May, Australian Consumers′ Association, Choice, page 9

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   (a) Meat pie is cooked meat with or without cereal, condiments seasoning and water, enclosed in a case of pastry. (b) Meat pie shall contain not less than twenty-five parts per centum of meat when determined by the prescribed method.

   1979, John L. Goldring, L. W. Maher, Consumer Protection Law in Australia, page 119

   Meat pies are an Australian favourite and are sold in cake and sandwich shops from one end of the land to the other. The classic version is simple – an individual, 2-crust pie full of chopped beef in a rich gravy.

   2005, Margaret Fulton, Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z, Revised edition, page 444