By Lin

Re: Aga Users - I need your help!
19 Nov 2008 15:00

I am going to make Delia's cornish pasty pie today for the November cook-a-long. She recommends cooking the pie for 15 mins at a high heat and then 1.5 hours at gas mark 4. How can I do this in the Aga? (2 oven). Would it work if I cooked it in the top oven until the pastry browned and then put it into the bottom oven until the filling was cooked? Not sure what this would do to the pastry.

Need your help quickly guys,

Lin

Replies

By kath

Re: Aga Users - I need your help!
19 Nov 2008 15:22

Difficult one but I think I would either do it as you suggested but put the pie back in the top oven for the last 10-15 mins of cooking to crisp up the pastry, alternatively you could just cook it in the top oven, putting a cold shelf in just above the pie after the first 15mins and possibly replace it with another cold shelf half way through. Good luck!
Kath

By Honey

Re: Aga Users - I need your help!
19 Nov 2008 20:30

Do you have Mary Berry's Aga book that is usually supplied when you get your Aga? I would suggest that you follow the principle for the Double Crust Fruit Pie (page 119).... but I would drop it down to the bottom oven for longer to ensure the meat is cooked. I think the pastry will be fine. For the double crusted pie the pastry is sitting on the floor of the top oven for 20 - 25 minutes until golden brown and then dropped down to the bottom oven for a further 20 minutes to cook the fruit and so I think this principle will work for the pasties too. Just leave it longer in the bottom oven.

Honey :-x

By Jane

Re: Aga Users - I need your help!
20 Nov 2008 08:17

good advice from Kath and Honey. Remember the simmering oven is probably much cooler than gas mark 4, so I would probably cook it in the top oven, at the bottom with the cold shelf over for about 1/2 hour before transferring to simm, oven. You just have to keep an eye on it. I often used to put a piece of kitchen roll or greaseproof over cakes or pies that needed longer cooking to avoid burning. Good luck. I used to have an Aga before we moved and I really miss it, especially this time of the year.

By Lin

Re: Aga Users - I need your help!
20 Nov 2008 13:25

Thanks Kath, Honey and Jane. I don't think I'm going to be able to find out what works best. When OH asked me what was for supper and I told him, he said 'oh no, don't make that!' I told him he'd better get me a takeaway then, which he did.

Lin