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Definition of Meat pie
1. Noun. Pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough.
Specialized synonyms: Pasty, Tourtiere, Shepherd's Pie, Steak And Kidney Pie, Kidney Pie
Definition of Meat pie
1. Noun. (context: non-idiomatic usage cooking) A pie containing meat. ¹
2. Noun. (Australia NZ) A hand-sized pot pie containing largely minced meat and gravy and typically consumed as a takeaway food snack. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meat Pie
Literary usage of Meat pie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Joe Miller: A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humour by Joe Miller (1865)
"The world is like a baked meat pie; the upper crust is rich, dry, and puffy; the
lowr crust is heavy, doughy, and underdone; the middle is D^t bad generally ..."
2. Practical Sanitary and Economic Cooking Adapted to Persons of Moderate and by Mary Hinman Abel (1890)
"meat pie. . . . .. , ,, . , When the meat is cooked tender, thicken the gravy
and pour all into a pie or pudding dish. Cover with a common pie crust or one ..."
3. More Recipes for Fifty by Frances Lowe Smith (1918)
"Cover meat with any meat pie Crust, and bake thirty minutes or more. ...
Finish with a regular pie crust, or with one of the following meat pie Crusts. ..."
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