Bridie

Bridie

Origin
Alternative name(s)	Forfar bridie
Region or state	Scotland
Details
Type	Savoury pie
Main ingredient(s)	Pie crust, minced steak, butter, beef suet

A bridie or Farfar bridie is a Scots kin o maet pastry or pie, oreiginally frae the toun o Farfar, seimlar tae a Cornish pasty. It's made o minced beef, whiles wi ingans and spices, stappit intae pastry (aither shortcrust or puff) nickit intae a hauf-muin shape; the hail thing is bakkit in an uin.

Whit's in the bridie is indicate bi the nummer o holes in the tap; juist the ae hole shaws that the'r nae ingans in the ingredients an twa holes shaws that ingans haes been uised.

It is the subject o the Dundee shibboleth, Twa plain bridies an an ingan ane an aa, supposedly impossible tae say gin ye dinna come frae that toun.

Fremmit airtins

• The Famous Farfar Bridie. A wabpage anent bridies, in Inglis wi some Scots.