meat pie

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meat pie (countable and uncountable, plural meat pies)

1. (non-idiomatic usage, cooking) A pie containing meat.

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

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

     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.

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

     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.

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

     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.

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

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

2. (Australia, New Zealand) A hand-sized pot pie containing largely minced meat and gravy and typically consumed as a takeaway food snack.
   • 1979, John L. Goldring, L. W. Maher, Consumer Protection Law in Australia, page 119:

     (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.

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

     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.

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

     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.

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