Fish pie

3 May 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  5 minutes

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Fish pie, also known as fisherman’s pie, is a traditional British dish. Gifts of fish pie to the king were a common tradition for various occasions. In a Lenten tradition, the town of Yarmouth was required to bake 100 herrings into two dozen pies and send them to the king. The prior of Llanthony, Gloucester, baked eels and carp into a pie as a gift to Henry VIII in 1530. In 1752 one was sent to the Prince of Wales. The tradition was also recorded during the reign of Queen Victoria.   read more…

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