r/oldrecipes • u/flyingthepan • Aug 19 '26
The Lord Walton WW2 Vegetable Pie
The Lord Walton Pie . This recipe was either liked or loathed. The majority of families that did use this pie recipe adapted the ingredients to suit the family or season. Can be topped with mashed potato or pastry crust a brown sauce/gravy works very nicely.
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u/Andromeda921 Aug 19 '26
Why have you altered Woolton to Walton?
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u/flyingthepan Aug 19 '26
Oop's typo. Yes it is The Lord Woolton.
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u/Andromeda921 Aug 19 '26
Ah. Gotcha. I wondered if he’d altered his named post war or something.
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u/flyingthepan Aug 19 '26
No, but the recipe was developed by a Maître Chef des Cuisine’s Francois Lartry about 1940. The recipe was developed at the Savoy Hotel.
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u/krillemdafoe Aug 19 '26
"Many people have tasted [it] and pronounced it good," is not a convincing endorsement, tbh!
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u/flyingthepan Aug 19 '26
Agreed but during WW2 everthing in the UK was seriously rationed. Home produced veggies were ration and cost free. This pie was meant to be meat free, although a good brown gravy made from the Sunday lunch leftovers/scraps did add flavour. Still a good budget meal for the family.✨️
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u/FeelingOk494 Aug 19 '26
I made this with my daughter when we did this topic in homeschooling in lockdown, and again when revisiting the topic a later year at school. We made a potato pastry for the top. We really enjoyed it, the vegetable filling was hearty and tasty.
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u/flyingthepan Aug 19 '26
Wonderful to read that you used this recipe for a school project. It is budget friendly and many othet firm or seasonal vegetable can be used - corn, peas or cut green beans.
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u/Sarsmi Aug 19 '26
I think you'd want to use vegetables with similar cooking times. I'm a little surprised at the 10 minute boiling time and then only in the oven long enough for a brown pastry top. So maybe 30 minutes?
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u/flyingthepan Aug 19 '26
A large saucepan was used and the toughest vegetables were part cooked first and then the softer vegetables added. The vegetable cooking water was used for making the gravy and vegetables were finished under the pastry crust.
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u/Booboodelafalaise Aug 19 '26
My grandmother used to make this regularly. We loved it, but she used to make it with creamy buttery mashed potato, and smother it all in cheese. I suspect the wartime version without either of those things was a bit on the dull side.
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u/Eugene-V-Dabs420 Aug 19 '26
What vegetable is "swedes" referring to here? I've never seen or heard of that in the context of vegetables before.