Bacon and Egg Pie
You do need to be determined to do this, I don’t find the ingredients are to hand, but they are easy to get,
This is a short recipe, but I found I needed a writeup, so here it is.
Ingredients
Puff pastry
Packed of bacon, 6–8 slice
8 eggs
1 onion
A little milk
Tools
For sure you need something relatively flat to bake in
Scissors are the easy way to get rinds off bacon
Oven
About halfway: 200°C, 392°F, Gas 6
Make
Get the pastry warm enough to roll, roll, grease your baking tin/pot/tray, put in a pastry base. Prick the base with a fork. May as well prepare a top, while you are setting that
Peel and chop the onion. Make it as small as possible, like tiny dice. Spread over the pastry in the tray
Cut the rinds off the bacon, then dice into thumbnails
Smash all the eggs into a bowl, spare one yolk. Tip into the bowl a few spoons of milk, and any herbs/salt/pepper, then whisk thoroughly
Tip the bacon into the egg, stir, them pour it all over the onion in the tray
Cover with the pastry top, crimp sides, then paint on egg‐yolk
In the oven for 35 mins
Variations
A friend tells me this was usually eaten cold at picnics
Parsley sounds good with this, I can’t get that
Several people mention Worcester Sauce in the filling, which may work, I don’t know
If the baking starts to burn, you can cover in foil
I don’t have a pastry brush, but a stub of kitchen roll or toilet paper will be ok for this
Discussion
Don’t know why, but the house I’m in wastes bacon. No Kosher or Halal, bacon comes into the house, then never gets used. Must be a cultural thing. And I’m not sure what’s ‘classic’ about this. But given that it comes from New Zealand, it is fundamental, for sure. Perhaps ‘common’, though nowadays that makes no appeal.
References
Too may people faff and ramble with this, this recipe doesn’t,
https://www.food.com/recipe/famous-new-zealand-bacon-egg-pie-201918
Feedback
Hurrah, here’s lunch!