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Beef's dignified cut and its least glamorous organ, buried under pastry so you forget the organ part.
means A traditional British savoury pie filled with chunks of beef steak and kidney cooked in a thick gravy, topped or encased in pastry.
from A straightforward compound name rather than a word with hidden roots: 'steak' comes from Old Norse 'steik' (meat roasted on a spit), and 'kidney' is of murky Middle English origin, possibly a compound of 'kid' and 'ey' (egg), likening the organ's shape to an egg. The dish itself is a product of British home cooking from the 1800s onward, when offal was cheap, beef was dear, and pastry stretched both into something that felt like a proper meal.
- origin
- english pub food, codified victorian era
- the catch
- kidney must be soaked to kill ammonia taste
- texture tell
- gravy should be thick enough to stand a spoon
- pairing
- traditionally eaten with mushy peas, no exceptions