Butter pie

For other uses, see butter tart.

Butter pie
Alternative names	Catholic pie, Friday pie
Place of origin	England
Region or state	Lancashire
Main ingredients	Potatoes, onions, butter
Cookbook: Butter pie Media: Butter pie

A butter pie is a traditional savoury pie consisting mainly of onions and potatoes.

History

Butter pie is known to be created for workers from Lancashire's Catholic community, to consume on days (mainly Friday) when meat could not be eaten.^[1]^[2]

It is also sometimes served on a savoury barm cake. The pie is stocked by fish and chip shops, sandwich shops, local corner shops and some supermarkets within Lancashire.

This dish is also mentioned in the Paul McCartney song "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" which contains the lyric, "I had another look and I had a cup of tea and butter pie".

Areas

The butter pie can be found in most areas of the historic boundaries of Lancashire, including Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Burnley, Bury, Chorley, Lancaster, Preston, St Helens and Wigan (whose residents are some times known by the nickname, pie-eaters).^[3]

From 2006, the butter pie was included in the annual World Pie Eating Championship in Wigan, in the vegetarian category.

Butter pies were served on match days at Preston North End's Deepdale stadium until 2007 when the providers, Ashworth Foods Ltd, ceased trading. With the new providers, Holland's Pies not offering a butter pie, two Preston North End fans started a campaign on Facebook calling for the return of butter pies to the matchday menu.^[2]^[4] In 2010 the butter pie made a return to Preston North End's Deepdale stadium after the huge demand for the pie.

References

↑ "Food around the area". Made in Preston. 17 December 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
1 2 "Butter pie". Lancashire and Blackpool Tourist Board. 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
↑ "Wigan, Lancashire, UK". bbc.co.uk. 15 January 2001. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
↑ Wallwork, Melanie (12 August 2008). "PNE fans call for butter pies". Lancashire Evening Post. Retrieved 2009-01-15.

British pies

Sweet	Apple pie Bakewell tart Banoffee pie Bedfordshire clanger Black bun Custard tart Manchester tart Mince pie Rhubarb pie Treacle tart

Savoury	Bacon and egg pie Bedfordshire clanger Bridie Butter pie Chicken and mushroom pie Corned beef pie Cornish pasty Cottage pie Cumberland pie Curry pie Devizes pie Fish pie Game pie Homity pie Killie pie Meat and potato pie Melton Mowbray pork pie Pork pie Scotch pie Shepherd's Pie Squab pie Stargazy pie Steak pie Steak and kidney pie Steak and oyster pie Woolton pie

Manufacturers	Clark's Pies Dickinson & Morris Fray Bentos Ginsters Higgidy Holland's Pies Mr Kipling Peter's Poole's Pork Farms Pukka Pies Shire Foods Square Pie Wall's Wrights Pies

Foods featuring butter

Foods	Béchamel sauce Brandy butter Bread and butter pudding Butter chicken Butter pecan Butter tart Butter cake Butter cookie Butter pie Butter salt Butter tea Butterbrot Buttercream Butterscotch Buttery (bread) Chicken Kiev Cookie butter Croissant Danish (pastry) Gooey butter cake Hard sauce Pain aux raisins Pozharsky cutlet

List articles	List of butter dishes

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Butter pie

History

Areas

See also

References

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