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?

Agreed, a few steak links mixed in for the extra flavour.

So are the sausages whole when they go in , or in pieces?

In pieces !!! 🙂

Ive seen them whole in steak pies

They were always in pieces and to flesh out the meat.

Speaking of sausages I bought beef olives thinking filled with mealy pudding ..nope
Sausage meat ..Malcolm Allan make🤮

I don’t think that I’ve ever seen beef olives filled with mealy pudding or knew that they existed until now.

Oh they do and they're ace.
I honestly thought that was the only way they were made.
I'm late 50s .👍😋

I’ve only ever seen them with sausage meat and I’ve never even tried mealy pudding.

This is clearly regional. Which area are you from if I may ask?

Mum used to make beef olives for us when I was little. Always sausage wrapped in beef!

Beef olives were mealy pudding in Aberdeenshire when I was growing up. Here in the soft south they are made with sausage. I do prefer the mealy pudding ones.

Beef olives were our best school dinner, although lentil soup with a huge cheese biscuit came close.

(edited when i remembered the cheesy biscuits).

NE Scotland.👍😁

Thank you. That explains it.

Just steak in the pie here (Edinburgh) never had one with sausages in it before. Served on NYD with carrots and mash oh and Lentil soup to start

Pie and chips - perfectly legitimate although I’d usually have mash with extra gravy. Maybe even a Yorkshire pudding or 2 if feeling particularly hungry. I’ve never had or seen a steak pie with sausage in 😅

I'm in the NE and our local butcher does beef olives with mealie pudding, black pudding, haggis or sausagemeat filling.
Have to be served with mashed tatties, neeps and gravy.

Any restaurant that served me a steak pie with links would get a complaint for false advertising. I'm not even joking. Fortunately, I have yet to encounter such a restaurant.
Going to MIL for NY dinner and she will very likely buy a steak pie that has the pastry separate - I mean who does that!

@weegielassi make stew with a lid (separate) rather than an actual pie. The puff pastry is the best bit.

I’m from the Highlands and we’ve always had sausage in our steak pie. I think it was used to make the pie go further. Mealy pudding olives are fabulous, we had them on a Wednesday at my grannies 🥰

I ended up making 2 steak pies, 1 with sausages (in whole) and 1 without