Meat Pies
NICODEMUS BOFFIN: "Now, Wegg, just cast your eye along these shelves, and if you see anything you take a fancy to--have it down!" SILAS WEGG (promptly): "Do my eyes deceive me-or is that a weal-and-hammer?" --CHARLES DICKENS.
The meat pie is often a useful adjunct to a meal, when the marketman fails to deliver in time what was intended for the day's dinner, or to make a variety on the advent of unexpected guests. It is also a very useful way of using the remnants of cold meat or fowl.
Chicken pie used to be invariably served on Thanksgiving Day in many New England families, and memory brings to mind one table where it was the larger part of the Thanksgiving morning breakfast!