View Full Version : The best Shell pie in the world EVER!!!!
Following on from the Indian thread who makes the best pie....EVER!!!
Its local pies only I am afraid as Greggs arent up here but are scrumdiddlyicous!!!!
Used to love a "JP" but now have switched to Macdonalds as they are "jam packed" with meat.
Who do you reckon makes the best pie?
riggerboy
06-May-09, 06:52
Houston's wick by far the best pie, real meat lovely expensive but lovely all the same
In the same way that any vacuum cleaner is called a Hoover, so it is with a pie...the first name you think of is Johnston's.
well i voted johnstones as they really are the best pies ever.
Aussiewicker
06-May-09, 09:28
SYDs Pies, Pacific Hwy, Loganholme in South Brisbane! Don't go to Qld without popping into Syds!
or the deli in Penrith Plaza, West of Sydney: real beaut Scotch Shell pies in there too! Hmmmm lovely!
northener
06-May-09, 09:33
They're all crap.:(
Give me a decent pork pie (unobtainable up here) any day.
Johnstons!! and how i could go with one now!!
anneoctober
06-May-09, 09:54
Johnstons, but if I wiz in edinburgh watching Caley play Hearts, e pies at Tynecastle are yummy !!
Johnstons are good Pies but Not the Best in the World Ever.
Wallace's Pies from "The Land of Cakes" in Dundee are not only Bigger, Cheaper but Taste Much Much Better.
I think this Poll was a Mistake and what it should have been is this :-
What is the Best Pie in Caithness or even the Highlands.
It is silly to think that one of the Pies would be the Best Pie in the World Ever as there is always somewhere Bigger, Smaller, Longer and Better than what you have experience of. Also Ever is an Very Long Time indeed. What do any of us Know about Pies made in the 15th Centuary or some other date just as silly.
I voted Johnstones also, really like there pie's......:D
Tubthumper
06-May-09, 12:11
I wonder if revenge we soon shall see
As baker-shops get jealous of success
Smoke rising from the Johnston's Bakery
And shop reduced to smoking pile of mess
The Indian in Castletown was lost
Result of Caithness org poll could it be
And now we state our favourite pie-host
Might it all end in flames and misery
Please pie-contenders keep your matches dry
Your jerry-cans of petrol soundly corked
Be satisfied you're in the poll for pie
Although by Johnston's you've been briskly porked
I fear that Caithness orger prattle
Could end up in shell-pie battle
Houston's wick by far the best pie, real meat lovely expensive but lovely all the same
Have to agree, Hueston's mince pies are lovely.
For shell pies which I assume means Scotch Pie I put Johnstones as that's what everyone I've ever asked says! :)
the poacher
06-May-09, 16:02
johnstones best pies ever cant beat them.
Metalattakk
06-May-09, 16:46
Aye, ye cannae beat a Johnstone's pie.
(Even if ye do know what the 'secret' ingredient is! ;))
I love the shell on Johnstones pies but not so keen on the meat.
I used to like them best at 6 in the morning when they just came out the oven mmmmmm.
buddyrich
06-May-09, 17:31
Is the secret ingredient in johnsons pies the ingredient that ensures they taste totally bland?
Their bridies are very nice though.
Is the secret ingredient in johnsons pies the ingredient that ensures they taste totally bland?
Their bridies are very nice though.
Interesting that as I find their Bridies Bland and their Shell Pies Seasoned just right. :D
As they say Different strokes for different folks.
Amy-Winehouse
06-May-09, 17:40
Pies sold at Newcastle United fc are the best Ive ever tasted- absolutely superb, nothing comes close up here BUT!!! Johnstones pies are the best up here by quite a way
i found halkirk biscuits to be the best
Oh well, it looks like Johnstones in Thurso getting torched very soon...:lol:
Used to love a "JP" but now have switched to Macdonalds as they are "jam packed" with meat.
Eh...meat?, in a shell pie? :lol: you're avin' a laugh there Mr Rod
It's JP all the way for me, although shell pies are something i avoid like the plague these days, no idea what they are like now, but a few years back the Macdonalds shell pies were nearly inedible, just dripping with fat...yuk yuk yuk
Gene Hunt
06-May-09, 19:06
Excuse my ignorance (I am welsh after all) but what exactly is a Shell Pie ??, is it just a Caithness word for a regular pie or am I missing out on something ??
Aye, ye cannae beat a Johnstone's pie.
(Even if ye do know what the 'secret' ingredient is! )
I know all the ingredients...I used to make them.
Excuse my ignorance (I am welsh after all) but what exactly is a Shell Pie ??, is it just a Caithness word for a regular pie or am I missing out on something ??
A Scotch Pie is a crust base with meat filling..they are called a Shell Pie in Caithness. Here is one I prepared earlier:
Before
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2071/scotchpie.jpg
After
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/944/emptyplate.jpg
I wonder if revenge we soon shall see
As baker-shops get jealous of success
Smoke rising from the Johnston's Bakery
And shop reduced to smoking pile of mess
The Indian in Castletown was lost
Result of Caithness org poll could it be
And now we state our favourite pie-host
Might it all end in flames and misery
Please pie-contenders keep your matches dry
Your jerry-cans of petrol soundly corked
Be satisfied you're in the poll for pie
Although by Johnston's you've been briskly porked
I fear that Caithness orger prattle
Could end up in shell-pie battle
If the bakery can survive my time on the ovens then it can survive anything. [lol]
I love the shell on Johnstones pies but not so keen on the meat.
I used to like them best at 6 in the morning when they just came out the oven mmmmmm.
Aye, many is the time I had taken a rack of pies or bridies out the oven and one or two would accidently fall off. Fortunately I would be quick enough to catch it with my big gob. [lol]
JOHNSTONS PIES ARE THE BEST BY FAR Mmmmmmmmmmmm
Metalattakk
06-May-09, 19:37
I know all the ingredients...I used to make them.
Then you'll ken exactly how the pastry gets its 'unique' aroma and flavour then? ;)
Then you'll ken exactly how the pastry gets its 'unique' aroma and flavour then? ;)
The sad thing is, I can still remember the recipe 7 years after leaving the bakery. :eek:
If I had to eat a meat pie it would be a MacDonald's one but I only eat Macaroni ones, hot with tomato sauce, yummy.
weeksider
06-May-09, 19:54
I had Calder bakers in wick pies , e Campbells bakers shop in wick pies, ex butchers polsons pies ,houston's pies ,harrold bros pies , butcher George mckay pies ,killie pies from halkirk ,johnstons pies and reids in pies thurso ,clach pies in inverness ,brora pies in my time but the best of all are Thurso ones by a mile from Johnstons outa the 1 stop shop wifie smith :lol: in pultney
northener
06-May-09, 19:56
if we expand this into a general pie discussion, i would like to say the Harrolds butchers in Wick make the best steak pie in the Universe. And I should know - I've travelled all round it.
if we expand this into a general pie discussion
Then I'll make the controversial comment that I've failed to find a decent pork pie north of the border.:~(
[QUOTE=joxville;544913]I know all the ingredients...I used to make them.
A Scotch Pie is a crust base with meat filling..they are called a Shell Pie in Caithness. Here is one I prepared earlier:
Slight alteration required Jox ;)
Before
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2071/scotchpie.jpg
After
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/scorrie57/recovery.jpg
And when Jox created Pie, he created it in his own image:-
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/scorrie57/scotchpie.jpg
After[/size]
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/scorrie57/recovery.jpg
As a trained first aider I think I'd better go and take advantage of this woman. Sorry, give her the kiss of life. ;)
northener
06-May-09, 20:36
Then I'll make the controversial comment that I've failed to find a decent pork pie north of the border.
I agree 100% the Scots do not appear to have mastered the correct way to make a 'growler'.
[quote=joxville;544913]
Before
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2071/scotchpie.jpg
After
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/scorrie57/recovery.jpg
Good God!
I never realised you could get blootered on a shell pie.:eek:
And when Jox created Pie, he created it in his own image:-
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/scorrie57/scotchpie.jpg
He was obviously yawning on the nightshift then! :lol:
He was obviously yawning on the nightshift then! :lol:
Ye dinna ken how close to the truth ye are......I canna tell ye the number of times I slept in. [lol]
[quote=joxville;544913]I know all the ingredients...I used to make them.
A Scotch Pie is a crust base with meat filling..they are called a Shell Pie in Caithness. Here is one I prepared earlier:
Slight alteration required Jox ;)
Before
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2071/scotchpie.jpg
After
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/scorrie57/recovery.jpg
That must have some bad case of Shell Shock !!!
'tis time I had a pie... the baker's in Edgeware that I used to send my assistant running to every Friday morning is long out of range. I can't remember if they were even that good but I do remember they used to come with a spoonful of baked beans in the top bit :D
So I'll have to make a test and come back with an objective review...
Jamiesons for me...Johnstones gives me hellish heartburn.
Perhaps the next Thread should be What is the Best Indigestion Tablet :lol:
So, where's Johnstones????
Oh for heaven's sake! A bit back from where you were walkin on the road LOL!
Jamiesons for me...Johnstones gives me hellish heartburn.
I have found this as well of lately
Oh for heaven's sake! A bit back from where you were walkin on the road LOL!
[lol] That movie wasn't real wifie! But thanks for the info... even if I exasperate you from time to time all my questions are asked in innocent ignorance.
teddybear1873
07-May-09, 18:37
What I would do for a shell pie right now, man its making my mooth water. The USA sucks big time when it comes to a meat filled pie. All there bakery's here are all bloody cakes. Little wonder they have an obesitey problem over here.
[lol] That movie wasn't real wifie! But thanks for the info... even if I exasperate you from time to time all my questions are asked in innocent ignorance.
Oh I realise that wasn't real! :roll: I was just teasin ya! You ask away - no-one on here will laugh at you! (Well they might but hey it is the Org! [lol])
butterfly
07-May-09, 22:28
Johnstones gives me hellish heartburn.
Same here,i prefer McDonalds.
davlaurjen
07-May-09, 23:01
Greggs do some very nice pies.Branches in many towns.
Anyway, Johnstons' shell pies are damn tasty, as are their foil pies. I don't think they've changed since I first tasted them about 45 years ago.
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