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Alternative names | Mutton pie, shell pie, mince pie, football pie |
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Type | Meat pie |
Place of origin | Scotland |
Serving temperature | Hot or cold |
Main ingredients | Mutton or other meat, hot water crust pastry |
A Scotch pie is a small, double-crust meat pie, traditionally filled with minced mutton (whereby also called a mutton pie) but now generally beef, sometimes lamb.[1][2] It may also be known as a shell pie to differentiate it from other varieties of savoury pie, such as the steak pie, steak and kidney pie, steak-and-tattie (potato) pie, and so forth.
The Scotch pie originated in Scotland,[3] but can be found in other parts of the United Kingdom and abroad.[citation needed]