Stargazy pie generally shortcrust but sometimes puff pastry, through which the fish heads and sometimes tails protrude. For presentation, one suggestion is that the pilchards be arranged with their tails toward the centre of the pie and their heads poking up through the crust around the edge. As it includes potatoes and pastry, the pie can be served on its own or with crusty bread, sometimes with vegetables. Other suggested accompaniments are Cornish Yarg cheese, rhubarb chutney, poached eggs or a slice of lemon. The children's book "The Mousehole Cat" by Antonia Barber is inspired by Tom Bawcock's Eve. It is the
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,