Modern Baker: Curried Fish Pie

      The thirteenth recipe I made from the Savory Tarts & Pies section (the 57th recipe overall in this book) of The Modern Baker  by Nick Malgieri, was the one for Curried Fish Pie, on pages 146-147.  (We are not publishing recipes from the book, so if you like what you see, buy the book and bake along with or without us).

      I used the Rich Pie Dough recipe for the tart crust.  The ingredient list for the Rich Pie Dough:  all-purpose flour, salt, baking powder, butter, and eggs. 

      The ingredient list for the filling:  fish, breadcrumbs, onion, milk, curry, turmeric, cloves, golden raisins, mango chutney, almonds, sugar, vegetable oil, salt and pepper, and eggs.  I used my little 6" tart pan again, which takes 1/3 of the full Rich Pie Dough recipe and I used 1/4 of the filling ingredients. 

      Let me just say straight out that I didn't like this at all.  That's not to say the recipe is bad, just that I figured going into it I wasn't going to like it just from the sound of the ingredients, and things did not improve.  At the beginning of the year I promised myself that I was not going to make anything for any of my groups that I didn't think we would really like.  Who knows what I was thinking on this one...probably that I should expand my tastes or something.  I'm thinking this was not the place to go with that idea. 

      I looked at Phyl's post and his looks so different (click here).  You can see the fish in his and in mine it just all dissolved in the filling and I couldn't really see it.  It baked for 30 minutes and it didn't seem done, so I let it go another 10 and still it did not seem done (too wet) and finally after another 10 minutes, it still looked too wet and I figured maybe it was just supposed to be that way and would firm up.  It didn't.

      I am pretty sure that I did something wrong, there was no photo of it in the book for me to compare.  I took one bite, knew that I was not going to eat another, gave the rest of my little slice to the dogs, who seemed to really like it, and packed it in the frig for Mark to try.  He refused without even looking at it.  I'm thinking that this was my error, not the recipe's as Phyl's looked much different.  I don't think anyone else in the group made it.  A repeat?  Hardly, we are not a fish pie family apparently. 

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