Round pastry pie with small fish heads protruding through the crust in a serving dish.

Stargazy pie

United Kingdom · Europe

Short description
This dramatic fish pie is known for the heads and tails emerging from the crust.
Ingredients
Pastry, whole small fish, eggs, potatoes, onion, cream or stock, bacon, herbs, salt, and pepper.
Cultural note
It is associated with midwinter storytelling and a coastal community tradition.
Common misconception
The protruding fish are intentional; the design signals the filling rather than a serving mistake.
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image credit

Stary gazy pie.jpg

creator:
Kernow Skies
license:
CC BY-SA 3.0
modified:
Copied from Wikimedia Commons via a standard 1280px Commons redirect thumbnail, center-cropped/resized, and re-encoded for Gochizu.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
source:
OpenAI API Text to Speech
modified:
AI-generated voice audio.