The ultimate Christmas meal with all the trimmings has been created by a master baker. It’s neatly packed in a festive pie.
Gareth Mason’s Yuletide Pie, which can feed four families, includes Vegetables, turkey, gravy, and stuffing can all be stuffed into a pie crust.
It measures approximately 10 inches in diameter by 5 inches in depth. The pastry weighs more than 35 ounces, and has roughly 3,500 calories.
The pie was made by Mr Mason (34), who is also the head chef at Absolute Bar and Bistro, Westhoughton.
Before filling the pie crust, he blind baked the pastry.
Although the pie is not currently available on Mason’s menu, he plans to make a smaller version near Christmas.
Gareth Mason’s traditional yuletide dessert, which is large enough to feed four families, has turkey, vegetables and stuffing. It is also filled with gravy and binds together with gravy.
Gareth Mason described the pie as the Northerner’s most treasured Christmas present. He also mentioned that it was made with turkey gravy, which was then used to hold the pie together and poured on top of the pie for flavor. The portions listed are approximates.
Gareth Mason, from the Absolute Bistro in Westhoughton Lancashire, has created the perfect Christmas pie 2021
Mason said, “It is a huge piece of pie.” It is so full of calories that it would be difficult for me to even count them.
“We have parsnips, shredded sprouts, carrots, roast turkey breasts, potato roasts, stuffing balls, turkey gravy, etc. All wrapped up in a thick, thin shortcrust pastry shell.
It would easily feed four people. This is a complete Christmas meal. It can be dropped off at Christmas and the work will be done for you.
“I made my pastry thick so that the pie would stay in place. The pie must contain at least 500g pastry. It is delicious.
The pie was called a “northerner’s best Christmas gift” by him. He also mentioned that the turkey gravy was used as a binding agent and that the topping could be poured on top to add flavour.
Mason continued, “I was thinking, “I wonder how a Christmas dinner would taste in a pie?”
“It is actually very delicious. It tastes just like Christmas dinner.
“It was an experiment that I did to test it and see how it worked.”
“We will have a Christmas menu, and I might put on a pie but it’ll be smaller than the one we currently have.”
This pastry is 10 inches wide and 5 inches deep. It weighs over 35 ozs. and has approximately 3,500 calories.
34-year-old Mr Mason assembled the pie as he experimented with festive menus at Absolute Bar and Bistro (Westhoughton), Bolton. He is also head chef
LOOK FAMILIAR ?… HIS CHIPS AND FISH PIE FROM THE END OF LAST YEAR
Gareth Mason doesn’t make Christmas dinner the only British classic.
A staggeringly three-tier pastry was created by Mr Mason last year. It contained fish, chips, and mushypeas in a crust.
He was the Executive Chef at Retreat Restaurants in 2020. Retreat Restaurants had three locations in Greater Manchester and Lancashire. They were classified as a Tier 3 business, so they could not open takeout.
The pie was created by Mr Mason with layers of battered cod and mushy peas, topped with homemade chips and crust paste.
Gareth Mason (pictured), created an original fish-and-chip pie for Retreat Restaurants Lancashire
This delicious creation was available as both a main meal and as take-out for Tier 2 drinkers.
Following much debate about whether Scotch Eggs are a significant meal, Mason created the ‘Lancashire Egg.
For a holiday theme, he used a bigger duck egg and layered turkey, pork and black pudding on top of it before covering the entire thing with onion Panko and sage.
His words were: “The egg was invented to have some fun with the entire debate on substantial meals and scotch-eggs in pubs.
People argued that it makes the dish a more substantial one if it has a side of salad.
“I used duck eggs as they’re larger and I covered it with pork sausage meat. Finally, it was coated in onion and sage. Then it was served with a side of salad.
Both meals are delicious and substantial. A pub that serves beer would love to have both.