Take some Cheddar cheese and a couple of onions and you have the makings of a great pie.
Cheddar Cheese
Cheddar cheese has been made in England since at least 1170. But the recipe for the cheese is much older than that and it is thought to have been brought over from France by the Romans and then adapted here.
Tradition has it that true Cheddar cheese should be made within 30 miles of Wells Cathedral. However, today many countries in the world produce their own versions of Cheddar Cheese.
Onions
Remains of what were probably wild onions have been found amongst other food remains in Bronze Age settlements dating back to 5000BC.
However, the cultivation of onions probably took place in 3000BC in Egypt (workers on the pyramids may have eaten radishes and onions)
Athletes in ancient Greece ate onions to lighten the balance of the blood.
Gladiators in Rome were given a rub down with onions as they were said to tone up the muscles.
Onions were so valued in the middle-ages that at one time they were used to pay for goods and services.
In later times the properties of onions were thought to be so great that the doctors of the day used them as remedies for all types of ailment.
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After that mini history lesson I’ll get down to the nitty gritty and give to what you really came for; the recipe.
Cheese and Onion Pie.
Ingredients
12oz of short crust pastry
2 large onions chopped
8oz of cheddar cheese, grated.
1oz of butter
2 tablespoons of milk
Some pepper.
Method
Roll out two thirds of your pastry and line a 10inch pie tin with it
Roll out the rest to make pie lid
Mix your grated cheese with the chopped onion
Add a little pepper to season and a little milk to moisten
Place mixture into the pastry
Brush edge of pastry with water
fit lid, trim to size and crimp edges with a fork
Brush lid with milk to glaze and make a couple of small slits in the top
