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This is our version of a steak and onion pie. The meat is dusted with flour, onions chopped finely, two stock cubes are dissolved in water and placed in a large casserole. The meat is stewed for between 2.5/ 3 hours. A large quantity of meat is cooked at a time so that many pies of different sizes are made. These are then frozen and used when we fancy one. The pies only have lids, no pastry on the base. This means that only the top of the thawed pie pastry needs to be cooked, and is ready for eating after about an hours baking. The pie is more meat than pastry and no separate gravy is required as this is sorted out at the pie filling stage.
This is the finished dish, with apologies for the bouncing flash.
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