Forfar Bridies (Recipe) (2024)

FAQs

What is the difference between Forfar bridie and Cornish pasty? ›

Most Cornish Pasties contain beef skirt steak or another cut of ground beef, potatoes, onions, and swedes (rutabagas in the US). Forfar Bridies, on the other hand, may contain onion or may sometimes be plain, without onion.

A Forfar Bridie is a horseshoe-shaped meat product. It has a shortcrust cover and the filling consists of beef, onions and seasoning. The Famous Forfar Bridie. They originated in the early part of the 19th century.

A traditional family recipe of Ground Beef, mixture of mild seasoning, with some finely diced onions folded into a flaky puff pastry. Also known as a Pasty throughout the UK, Bridies (pronounced Bri-Dee) were first developed in Forfar in the late 1800's.

Since 2011, the Cornish Pasty has enjoyed protected status under Protected Food Names legislation; so only a pasty made to a specific recipe in Cornwall can be called a “Cornish Pasty”.

In Wales it is the oggie. Like the Cornish pasty evolved for tin miners, who, unable to return to the surface at lunchtime had a hearty, easy to hold and eat, lunch, the oggie was born from the same premise.

Local stories claim the 'Forfar Bridie' originated from one Margaret Bridie of Glamis who sold these meat pasties at the Buttermarket at Forfar in the eighteenth century.

It may also be known as a shell pie to differentiate it from other varieties of savoury pie, such as the steak pie, steak and kidney pie, steak-and-tattie (potato) pie, and so forth. Scotch pie. A cooked, intact Scotch pie. Alternative names. Mutton pie, shell pie, mince pie, football pie.

A Forfar Bridie is a simple hand-held Scottish meat pie made in a horseshoe shape. It usually contains minced beef, and sometimes onion, and a few various seasonings.

SUITABLE FOR EATEN HOT OR COLD.

How did a Bridie get its name? ›

A meaty pastry treat from Scotland. The name “Bridie” has two possible origins. One is that the name comes from Maggie Bridie of Glamis who sold them at Buttermarket and the other is that the horseshoe shape made them lucky to serve at weddings and took the name from the bride.

The bridie is made of minced beef, sometimes with onions and spices, placed on rolled-out pastry and folded into a semi-circular shape, and then baked in an oven.

This made for a hearty yet portable meal for the miners. They're still very popular there, and you'll find them in every local bakery and community cookbook! American pasties are the American equivalent to Cornish pasties.

Meaning , according to dictionaries, someone easily taken advantage of, easily cheated/ blamed, stupid, a scapegoat. (as if!) Then you could be forever receiving letters/emails/texts, etc addressed to “Pasty”, which can be close to green.

There are five main types of pastry dough for creating pastries: flaky, shortcrust, puff, choux and filo. All of them are made primarily from flour, water and fat.

In Cornwall, a pasty is often called an “Oggie”, and while it is unclear as to where the word originated, some people have suggested that it is derived from hoggan, a kind of bag in which the miners carried their croust (croust is the Cornish term for lunch).

There will always be great debate about the origin of the pasty, but one easy way to detect the Devon pasty from the Cornish is that the Devon pasty has a top-crimp and is oval in shape, whereas the Cornish pasty is semi-circular and side-crimped along the curve.