starry-gazy pie
starry-gazy pie is the alternative form of stargazy pie.
Meaning of stargazy pie
Noun
stargazy pie (usually uncountable, plural stargazy pies)
- A Cornish dish of baked pilchards, covered with a pastry crust, arranged with their tails toward the centre of the pie and their heads poking up through the crust.
- Another time, she dined in Hampstead, where she was fed a version of stargazy pie with a whole squid where the eel should have been. It was flavoured, for the full medieval effect, with galangal, which her hostess described as “kind of like frankincense”.2023 July 15, Rachel Cooke, “No, Nigella – dinner parties are great. Deliveroo just doesn’t cut it”, in The Observer, →ISSN
Forms of starry-gazy pie
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Questions about starry-gazy pie
- What is starry-gazy pie the alternative form of?
- Starry-gazy pie is the alternative form of stargazy pie.
Words near starry-gazy pie in the dictionary
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