Tom Bawcöcks Eve Mousehole Cornwall. Legend has it that Tom saved the village from starvation by going to sea and catching 7 types of fish, every year a Star Gazy pie is made for the celebration.
Tom Bawcöcks's Eve is a festival held on the 23rd of December in Mousehole, Cornwall, UK. Read more
One 8" (200mm) shallow pie dish. 6 to 8 pilchard. 2 eggs. 3 rashers bacon. 1 lemon. One medium sized onion. Salt and pepper to season, (sea salt for greater authencity). Parsley and tarragon for flavouring and garnish.
Cornish Fish Recipe Method
Gut, clean and bone the fish, leaving on the heads and tails. (You may find the flesh is so fresh you can pull the backbone free just using your fingertips without needing a knife.) Take the onion. Finely chop. Chop into squares the bacon. Cut the lemon in half; set two slices from to one side for decoration. Squeeze and save the juice. Finely grind the rind. Boil until soft, not hard two free-range eggs. Cut into small dices. Read more
Stargazy pie is a Cornish dish made of baked pilchards and five other kinds of seafish, covered with a pastry crust. The pilchards are arranged with their tails toward the centre of the pie and their heads poking up through the crust around the edge, so that they appear to be gazing skyward. It is traditionally served with Cornish clotted cream.