An old chef I used to work for in the Royal Hotel in Cardiff during
the 1960's had a dish he used to make regularly for the staff. He
called it 'Alabama Pie'.

When I asked him what the recipe was he said he just whatever was left
over in the fridge, chopped up, boiled with a couple of tins of
tomatoes, salt and pepper... let it 'reduced' til it was thick and
then he wrapped it in pastry and baked it.

I never ate it again.

Apparently he learned it from his mother up when he was a kid in the
South of the USA. He was 60 then... so this must have been in the
early part of the century.

He told me the family was so poor he and his brothers used to go to
the bins at the back of the restaurants of 'white folk' and bring back
anything they could find that might be edible. Half eaten bits of
fish, chicken or meat... old veg... whatever they could scrounge.

His mother would cut the worst bits off and throw the rest in the pot.

Hard to believe how poor some people could be.

Just something to remember while we're stuffing our faces over Xmas

Welshdog
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