Stargazy pie band member Daniel Tashian remembered from his childhood. The 2004 film "Ladies in Lavender", starring Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl, Natascha McElhone and Miriam Margolyes, includes a scene where stargazy pie is prepared and served. Stargazy pie Stargazy pie (sometimes called starrey gazey pie, stargazey pie and other variants) is a Cornish dish made of baked pilchards (or sardines), along with eggs and potatoes, covered with a pastry crust. Although there are a few variations with different fish being used, the unique feature of stargazy pie is fish heads (and sometimes tails) protruding through the crust, so
Battalia pie In her 1727 cookery book "The Compleat Housewife", Eliza Smith describes battalia pie as follows: Smith's recipe was republished in Michael Willis's 1831 "Cookery Made Easy", and in Anne Walbank Buckland's 1893 book, "Our Viands: Whence they Come and How they are Cooked". The politician and author Benjamin Disraeli describes an English dinner of the previous century in his 1837 novel "Venetia", with Battalia pies were recreated at Naworth Castle in 2006 and at Westport House, Ireland in 2015. Battalia pie In English cuisine, battalia pie (obsolete spelling battaglia pye) is a large game pie, or occasionally a fish pie,