Steak pie, links or no links?

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I'm a links person as it's what I was brought up with, Mum from Ayrshire.
Also what do you serve it with, I do leftover red cabbage from Christmas and greens of some sort, broccoli 🥦 this year, plus extra gravy, but no potatoes which might be controversial.
What do you do?

Exactly. We must hail from similar parts of Scotland with similar traditions 😀

Mash and broccoli. Sometimes peppercorn sauce if it’s a dry pie.

Never ever heard of that either until reading this thread!

We serve steak pie on NYD. Always.

Steak pie with links, mash and roast potatoes, peas, carrots and broccoli with extra gravy. I always brown the sausages before they go in the pie though, there’s nothing worse than anaemic sausages 🤣. My SIL insists on having potato croquettes and baked beans with her steak pies…

NYD for us too and always with links, agree with the previous poster that it was done to eke out the more expensive meat. When we were little and all went to my grandparents the children were given the sausages, most preferred them, and the adults got the good stew! We have it with mash and whatever veg folks fancy but usually peas, cabbage and carrots as a base.
DH always makes a curry on Hogmanay.

Was just going to ask the same question, do you brown first?
NYD, roast or mash, carrots and something green, don’t normally do sausages but my family did when I was younger so Im going to suggest to DH for a wee change.
I will brown them though, limp wee willie winkies were a childhood nightmare.

Steak pie potatoes and peas is the law on NYD!

My gran sometimes made it with sausages and they tasted SO good! I may actually get some from the butchers this week to add to ours when I make them!

Definitely links 😋

I always do it the way my gran did - a steak link per person ( cut up of course) added to the steak for the last hour of cooking.

Traditionally I suppose it was to bulk out the meat, but actually it adds great extra flavour.

Absolutely gotta have links in

No links no potato. Pie, carrots, garden peas and plain bread thickly buttered to mop up the gravy.

links

I prefer steak only and a good puff pastry crust. My Ayrshire MIL makes hers with links though.

Links here. My mum used to add kidney sometimes cos my dad liked it.
Warning, this might send some over the edge...my friend has steak pie with chips and salad 🤮

That hands down beats my SIL’s croquettes and baked beans 🤢

Edinburgh born and raised here and I’d never heard of snarlers (what we call sausages) with a steak pie. I can see the reasoning behind it back in the day though. We have mash, greens (ideally sprouts), carrots and extra gravy from the butcher who made the pie.

Always NYD for us, Hogmanay is more exotic/less traditional because it’s friends rather than family…an Ottolenghi recipe for a spice slow cooked Shoulder of Lamb this year.

Oh yes i definitely brown everything first,

Salad and gravy My god !

😂

Ayrshire here, pie with links on NYD.

Mashed or roast tatties

Neeps, sprouts and usually peas or broccoli

This will be my first year as a vegetarian - nae steak pie for me!

Salad is actually criminal.why, why would you do that?
Also is it an MN massive salad?

Salad is actually criminal.why, why would you do that?
Also is it an MN massive salad?

Will you be having a substitute?
I recommend the Waitrose recipe for chestnut and mushroom 🍄 puddings

I had veggie haggis a few weeks ago which went down well so might try that again.

We had a mushroom wellington on Christmas day so want something different at NY.

I will struggle with missing steak pie more than i did with turkey, it used to be my favourite dinner!

Definitely brown first otherwise they look like penises and the skin floats off like used condoms.
No thank you.