Meat and Potato Pie | Hollands Meat Pie Review

Meat and Potato Pies are quite traditional in Northern England, and especially in Lancashire. While it wouldn't pass muster with the clean/healthy eating brigade, a meat and potato pie is perfect comfort food on a cold winter evening. One legendary brand of Potato and Meat Pies is Hollands Pies. Hollands have made pies in Lancashire since 1851, and their pies are sold in chip shops and at football matches across the North of England. In this video, I do a quick taste test of a Holland's Pie, and then I make my own meat and potato pie from scratch. It's quite easy and utterly delicious.
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[@profiler4772]

Nice guys. You took me back to my mother's kitchen where we as kids were watching our mum backing apple pie and meat pies the same way you were doing. Once in a while, she allowed us to bake our own apple pie. The warning "put your pinafore on first" still sounds across the ages. For you maybe not so extraordinary, but now I am a 69-year-old Dutchman who still bakes pies like my (English) mother taught me and I love to see my kids and grandchildren enjoy them.

[@Keefcooks]

Excellent!

[@Siralantoon]

When I were a lad in the 60's I did my time as a Butcher and we made 'Hand Raised' Pork Pie's. The hot water pastry was weighed out but always left overnight and moulded nicely around the 'Doofa' (If there is a proper name for the wooden former we used I never knew; it nor did my Boss who had used one all his life!) Needless to say the pies were delicious. Now; after many years, I am inspired to put on my 'pie head' and have a bash at baking again. Thanks Matey.

[@Keefcooks]

Doofa, lol. The proper names is a Dolly.😀

[@jackieblakemore56]

Alan Toon mmmm, but never heard of a meat and potato pie made with a hot crust pastry? Pork pie,, yes.

[@bushyconn]

Ah, how I wish we could get a decent pork pie in Australia. Every trime I return to England that is one of the first things I buy.

[@robertdavies4741]

Being a Lancastrian they look bloomin lovely.

[@boli2746]

Proppa pie!

[@adejames1960]

Eating a Holland's meat and potato pie..now called a potato and meat pie, it takes me back 33 years ago when I lived "up north". Nothing beats it then, and now. Drowned in Lea and Perrin's sauce, it's my ultimate comfort blanket 👍👍😃

[@HeinzizBaKeD]

I'll have to try this recipe soon! Also love it when your wife joins you for the taste test. Great video!

[@julesrox7538]

Love how you done the pastry into the dish. 54 years and it's something new. You clever bugga!

[@Keefcooks]

LOL

[@paulbastier3773]

When I was a commis waiter at the Granby Hotel in Harrogate, Mr Walter Holland of pie fame used to come to dinner in the grill room. He was a nice man. When our Catholic seminary needed re-roofing he gave a generous donation. I don't think he was a Catholic either.

[@AaronSherman]

More Mrs. KeefCooks! She's a lovely balance to your very technical (but excellent) commentary! I love her comment about the pies being crispy on the top and "squidgy" on the bottom!

[@Keefcooks]

She's very observant!

[@annecain3301]

Thanks for making the Meat and Potato Pies, they're on next week's menu. Ah! good old mushy peas, I remember my Grandmar, Mam and Mother-in-Law soaking the dried marrowfat peas overnight, along with the tablet included in the packet, before cooking. A lot of messing about granted, but what a taste, yummy!

[@Keefcooks]

Oh yeah, home made mushy peas. 😀

[@centuriontwofivezeroone2794]

Oh God, there's something I had forgotten... thanks Ann, great trip down memory lane, amazing how simple things can make you remember so much...

[@rmlectronicsuk2410]

Me again! Fabulous - Mums favourite for us and definitely a Yorkshire favourite in our Family. Thanks Keef, this is going to be one of our next creations. Mum was a C&G Diploma cook and I still have her knives which she worked hard for and saved for from Peter Maturis in Leeds. ✅

[@Duchess_of_Cadishead]

The meat and potato pies of my Lancashire youth were full of meat and potato chunks.fresh from the shop in those days, no microwaves.

[@stelloyd4944]

flipin eck im from accrington just up road from hollands pies and what you said made me chuckle ,respect fella!

[@SuperCoolbreeze4]

Ey up!!!!!! Yorkshire couple in BC Canada here are grateful for your recipe and enjoyed the good old Yorkshire banter too. Delicious

[@Keefcooks]

Our pleasure!

[@adrianfox9431]

Just made this but as a single large pie. Tastes awesome -took me back to my child-hood when I used to eat it at my grandmas (especially with the marrowfat peas).

[@davidmoyes1149]

Fun fact, they call it potato and meat pie because theirs more potato than meat. (legally they have to say that). I've been binging your channel whilst hungry and consuming wine; made my Saturday evening fine sir.

[@kernowprincess]

When I was in Stoke on Trent where I was born...my parents and I lived at Trentham and used to go to Longton Market to buy meat and potato pies...best I have ever had and we bought them regularly. We moved to Cornwall in 1969 and bought some Cornish pasties...Oh my, were they delicious or what!!!😋😋 Your pies look delicious, now they are definitely a beautiful pie... remind me of pasties a little but no swede in them but could make them into pasty pies adding swede..yaay!!! Thanks for sharing your lovely video and your wife is lovely xxx

[@tomandcameron]

Great video as usual. I grew up on this stuff coming from Darwen. Every other Sunday and bonfire night we always had this but a huge one with a crust on top, raw onions that had been soaked in a bucket for a couple of days in vinegar, and of course home made mushy peas.

[@DanWebster]

Awesome I am inspired once again. Thank you Chef Keef

[@davidogan]

Hi Keef! Thank you very much for the effort. What a wonderful video. Excellent quality! Both the pies and the show.

[@heatherlinton5057]

Since first obtaining your hot water and lard pastry, 🙏💁‍♀️ it's the only recipe I use for all my savoury pies and it astounds my guests .....BEST EVER👌👌👌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇿🇦

[@andyliu9158]

Having been living in the US for 8 years, I've been yearning for a hollands pie (I'm from Manchester) came across this video and I'm gonna make this soon. Looks delish! Keep up the good work!

[@Keefcooks]

Good luck Andy!

[@Jackietruth68]

Where is US Andy? Im from Oldham living in Arizona. I was originally searching how to make oven bottom muffins when this popped up in my line of sight ha ha

[@timwaywell]

Funny how you get yearnings.. I'm from Manchester too been here 18 years now, always liked Hollands pies and also the shiny green and black delivery trucks. these pies do look good so I may try them too... I hope you aren't in Tucson

[@timwaywell]

@@Jackietruth68 hmm Arizona..... bandit country

[@Jackietruth68]

@@timwaywell Currently in Cave Creek, just outside Phoenix, at moment, looking to move but having trouble finding a new spot with this insane housing market. I need some green grass and rain ha ha

[@gregisaacs7546]

Just made this recipe and of course it's delicious! Thanks for sharing a wonderful recipe!

[@Keefcooks]

Glad you liked it!!

[@stephenhope7319]

Hollands pies used to be gray inside. As a kid in Swinton in the 60's I used to go to the "chippy" once in a while for our dinner. I had to get chips and peas at the "chippy" then go 2 doors down to the bakery that made "real" meat and potato pies because the "chippy" only had Hollands pies.

[@AngusMacPherson-ch9wh]

Great videos and recipes, keep up the good work.

[@ZombieLogic101]

Sweet gentle Jesus in the garden.......the sound that crust made when ya cut it. Made my mouth water like crazy.

[@versacomkev8318]

Fantastic presentation Keef! We love our pies as well. Your passion for the craft is very evident. Here’s to “good eats!”

[@lindamartin6238]

Your wife is so lucky to have a husband that cooks and also such tasty meals that you prepare.

[@timspooner59]

As a Lancashire lad (living in NZ for past 45 years) Hollands pies are still in my memory.I think they included onions which were always a bit undercooked and bitter. However, NZ mass produced pies are totally crap. Best option here is a bakery shop (usually owned by Cambodians) . They do what is called Potato Top, which is really cottage pie.

[@123rizla123]

That looks stunning, chuffed to have found your channel, reyt lad.

[@davidmcnamara3243]

As a lad, living in Aslindon Lancashire in the mid 60's. The meat pies they used to bake in the local bakeries were something I will remember for the rest of my days. And have never been replicated since.

[@Keefcooks]

Everybody seems to remember pies as being a lot better than they are now. I think you meant Haslingden?

[@grahamhenshaw5782]

Bowens pies made in Adlington here in Lancashire make a delicious Potato & Meat Pie and a decent size too! Shame it's Sunday and their local shop in Chorley is closed....Monday it is then.

[@JayP-kd5rc]

You made that pie look so delicious. I clicked like and have subscribed. Thank you! Now I have to go back and write down the ingredients for the crust.

[@Keefcooks]

Cheers Jay!

[@diebabrika8904]

I like your channel really much! Greetings from Germany!

[@Keefcooks]

Welcome Hans!

[@spinaway]

i just realised keef, i got married 40 years ago next june, our reception was meat n potato pie peas and gravy with onions at the local pub, wife has never forgot it, cant think why except she mustve enjoyed it.

[@Keefcooks]

Classic!

[@yinyulin5841]

Thanks for your nice cooking show. I can’t wait to trying my own Meat and Potato Pies.

[@amandagrice7717]

Just wanted to say I made both a steak and kidney and a chicken and mushroom pie to your recipe today for a family gathering and both were loved by everyone so thank you very much, I love the hot water pastry its so easy to make and to roll out. I'm all pied out for this week so will try this one next week.

[@Keefcooks]

Thanks Amanda!

[@ghazman6141]

I loved the comment on the left over pastry, of put it in the refrigerator for a week or two before you throw it away. That is exactly what I do! :) I'm not a traditionalist, so I'll stuff some cheese in them as well.

[@samaitcheson7057]

Proper food made by proper people. Great recipe. Can't wait to try it! Thanks :)

[@gaiaweylyn]

I am absolutely going to give this a go soon. Gotta upgrade my oven first though. Haha~ My current one isn't so nice, and doesn't bake reliably over 200C

[@johncarroll1368]

From a Lancashire lad who eats his Holland’s pie at the footy match, they keep you warm and that’s all, anyway thank you for the video.

[@Keefcooks]

From what many people say, they're not a patch on what they used to be.

[@davidwilliamson2115]

He makes the pies that make the whole village sing

[@francesmunro9666]

Looks so good thanks keef xx👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@pacco9532]

‘Poncey garden peas’ settle down keef your getting a bit gangster 😂 great stuff mate I’ve enjoyed watching your channel grow!

[@dancoulson6579]

I love these pies. I have a dedicated program function in the microwave for them. 6 minutes microwave power followed by 5 minutes grill power. Perfect every time.

[@DeadliciousCookingStudio]

Look super yumm!! I feel like making this right now.

[@fightevilbymoon]

LOVED this video. Made my day. Love the Discworld references and the whole mood of the video is awesome. And the part at the end where your wife comes out to join you is so cute

[@hualani6785]

Lovely! When I came to the states, well sort of ”outer state” I learned the name ”Pot Pie”. but quite different, not the same flavours or crusts. i watched I learned, I wanted a taste. Your new sound & camera is well done.

[@Keefcooks]

Thanks Hualani

[@johnbodden1641]

Thank you Keef. You answered my question about shortening I left on another recipe of yours. I enjoy your videos and hope to be baking my own meat and potato pies

[@Keefcooks]

Good luck John.

[@rickbear7249]

Looks good. Quick Lancashire Granny's tip: if you've not got time to flour and brown off your meat, simply add a level teaspoon of Black Treacle to give that caramelized flavour to your pie gravy. Rick & MagRat (the cat)

[@Keefcooks]

Interesting

[@Crashersmith]

Great looking pies keef well done mate top cook regards Dave.

[@hazelwood-wi9sk]

Thank you for showing "old fashioned" measurements as well as metric for ingredients so we in the U.S. can try and duplicate your delicious looking pies!! Looks wonderful!!

[@jonjohnson2844]

Holland’s are handy to have in the freezer, often on offer for hardly anything. The filling is minimal but good for an easy quick meal with some mash, veg and gravy.

[@bpattique8753]

Yes, my mam and dad used to always keep a couple of Holland's pies in the freezer .. dad called it the pie mine 😆

[@glenford5254]

I was taught by my mother move the pastry around as you roll it Turning it over ,makes it hard and tough

[@Keefcooks]

Never heard of that before, but hard and tough are great attributes for this kind of pie.

[@BoggWeasel]

a meat and potato pie that is 90% not meat ? Yours is a hands down winner, I do like a good pie.

[@derekstratton3037]

Thanks for sharing your video Keef! I live in Canada🇨🇦 and we don't get the real comfort food that you guy's have over in Blighty! Going to try this tomorrow for dinner! I remember having a Hollands pie when we on vacation a couple of years ago! It didn't look anything like your recipe!

[@wanderingstar2717]

You'll get a better result with the Hollands pie if you bake it for 32-35 mins. I find them pretty tasty and am happy to have found a source for Holland's in Berlin! However - I am sure yours are going to be much better! I will try this hopefully soon.

[@hangingwiththeholts3804]

Great video, love this recipe and more Mrs Keef Cooks please !!

[@Ray-ku1sj]

You did a great job on this video, I am anxious to give this a try. Ray

[@leesharpe5610]

Love all your pies that you do Keef ,Glad to see Mrs Keef enjoying them also lol

[@Keefcooks]

Oh she loves a good pie!

[@TheRunesmythe]

The final product looks absolutely delicious and *loads* better than the mass produced "pie" at the beginning! Also, cheers from another Pratchett fan!

[@Keefcooks]

Cheers Runes

[@JohnDoe-bz4yl]

When you mentioned Discworld I was waiting for you to say it's like a pie from C.M.O.T Dibbler

[@Keefcooks]

I don't want to be sued by Holland's!

[@paulbazeley6259]

Great job keef! Can't wait to try this one mate !😁

[@Ant-dx8yt]

Holland's store their meat for up to 5 years it was revealed a few years ago when that BSE crisis were ongoing, I'm in Lancashire just about 7 miles from baxenden where these are made and I can honestly say I don't know anyone that eats them, we eat Clayton park pies, now they are good pies.

[@Keefcooks]

5 years! Not good...

[@debbiel1304]

Really enjoyable video I have got to try this with hot water and lard pastry !!! looked delish !!!

[@deeferry6520]

I've never had a meat and potato pie but I think you've tempted me to make it, thank you

[@Keefcooks]

Yeah, it's worth a try!

[@1malons]

I shall be trying your hot water pastry. It looks lush 😘 great video...

[@elizabethross9042]

i shouldn't worry about the healthy eating brigade..that pie looks delicious..am gonna make one.anyway homemade is healthy cos WE know whats in it,no preservatives etc...well done made me hungry

[@doctorlolchicken7478]

My great aunt always cooked the excess pastry as a lump in the oven and gave it to us kids. A pastry scone is not a bad thing at all.

[@Keefcooks]

Ooh, that sounds weird!

[@itaobyrneokeeffe7908]

Looks delicious great idea about the cutting the pastry.

[@wokeupandsmellthecoffee214]

I hit the like and got you 2k thumbs up ! Well deserved Keef that was a great tutorial . Subbed you

[@Keefcooks]

Thanks and welcome

[@stellajeffrey647]

Very nice looking pies, going to try these. Thanks for sharing. 🥧

[@summer2112]

When I was young my neighbour worked at said pie factory and the meat for those pies was Scottish beef steak. The potatoes were mostly locally grown. The pies were incredibly good back then. No wonder I’m now a vegan looking at those slop filled pastry things.

[@patagualianmostly7437]

Last I heard (I'm a Lancashire lad) the original owners of Hollands sold out to a company of Asian origin. their products, in my personal opinion, have gone steadly downhill ever since.

[@Beruthiel45]

I've watched this several times. Scrumptious. 👍

[@jules3951]

Can't wait to make these. They look amazing.

[@adejames1960]

...you can be sarcy about Holland's pies, but for those of us who just work out balls off, it does the job, and is proper tasty.

[@Keefcooks]

I appreciate it's a cheap, no-frills belly-filler, but there are far better pies around. No sarcasm or offence intended, I just gave my opinion that it was a bad pie.

[@adejames1960]

@@Keefcooks ..Fair play for replying Keef. Thumbs up for that. It just seemed a bit of a cheap shot in some ways, and a bit unnecessary. I'm surprised you say the sarcasm wasn't intended, as it is repeated a few times in different ways. I'm sure you didn't intend to cause offence through.

[@spex357]

The Hollands pie van used to arrive around 8am at my Fathers chippy in the 60's. Trays up on trays of Meat and Potato pies, Meat pies, Cheese and onion pies and Steak and Kidney puddings. The biggest difference I instantly noticed on a recent trial is that everything has been ground up. I couldn't find an onion or a piece of potato. The Cheese an onion had a filling of yellow paint. To add to it all the jar of piccalilli I bought to go with them, had also been chopped up. Spot on with the milk wash, it was probably Sterilized milk well into the 70's.

[@cjw2661]

We call these " pot pies" here in the states. I remember my Mom gettigg them for us kids as we were growing up because they had veggies, meat and potatoes in them. They were easy to make. Just pop them in the oven. They used to cost 29 cents. I believe they are up to about $1. nowadays. ( we loved them). I've made them before but bottom crust ahways came out soggy. Going to try your way next. Thank you for sharing.

[@Keefcooks]

I've always wondered why they're called that - where does the pot come in?

[@cjw2661]

@@Keefcooks from what I understand ( not positive its true) it is short for "potato pie" because they mostly had potatoes in them.

[@brendastrandrigdon6201]

I used to sell a lot of them when I was a bar maid and I never ate one unless truly desperate and starving. Much preferred meat a potato pies fresh from real bake shops. 😍 Pie peas and gravy 🙋😍

[@sharleenbrown9528]

Awww 😍 what a sweet couple ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@delorissamuelson6988]

Hello, just found you and have subscribed. So glad to see you and thanks so much for sharing your recipes and cooking experience 😀. I am from the States, and we don't make meat pies, not like these anyway, and I find the idea of making pastry intimidating, so i appreciate you and your videos very much. I have a question. Are you boiling the potatoes to complete doneness or till they are just under done. Thanks so much for the videos. Have a safe New Year!

[@Keefcooks]

They're just done - a bit of mushiness in the potatoes is fairly normal in this kind of pie.

[@delorissamuelson6988]

@@Keefcooks Thank You! I was just thinking about what I should do with my Christmas dinner leftovers and a meat and potatoes pie is perfect!

[@mistyhall8088]

Love all your cooking Keef!

[@maitlandbowen5969]

It is indeed “one good looking pie”.

[@anonymouspeacefulperson6199]

Gosh! I was in Oldham today with Robert and Lawrence and Maxine 14 at Sainsbury’s! Thanks darlin! Nice to see a friendly face in a very unfriendly area!

[@Keefcooks]

Umm, don't know

[@BrendanKBuckley]

Nice one Keef. After the success of my Northern Style Pork Pies, (using your recipe) I'm going to have a shot of making these beauties................Cheers.

[@Keefcooks]

Good luck!

[@Ytnzy250]

Do you do requests Keith? I love cheese & onion pie. Seen a few versions over the years, if you do a good one on your channel I'll jolly well become a patron. Cheers mucker!

[@Keefcooks]

I've done minced beef & cheese: www.keefcooks.com/minced-beef-and-cheese-australian-pie/ and I thought I'd done cheese and onion pasty, but it seems I'm wrong. I used to do cheese onion & potato because without the spuds there wasn't much bulk to the filling.

[@jaytlamunch4459]

Nice one Keef your creation looks a lot more delicious.

[@Keefcooks]

Thanks Joe

[@mariasanchezm.364]

very yummy

[@azalea_k]

RIP Sir Pterry. Love Discworld so much, great references.

[@jamescarr1467]

Hollands pies were the best but they were taken over by an Indian or Pakistani concern. Downhill from then.

[@gaz0463]

Totally agree. When I was a kid in the early 70s Hollands pies were the best! Then it changed ownership and the new owners used the cheapest possible ingredients with the least amount of meat and sold them on the back of the Hollands name and reputation! It’s such a shame! Hollands pies used to be a real treat back then but they’re hardly fit for consumption now!

[@nigelhill78]

Thats exactly what i thought, I remember going to the factory near haslingdon in lancashire in the very early 80’s they made nice pies then, I bought some from asda a few months ago, bloody disgusting 🤮

[@doug1570]

It' s happened to so many firms. I worked for several meat processing firms in the Lands, Cheshire and Derbyshire areas and the food we made was really good. All gone now. Such a shame. Morrisons are good and pukka still about there. Baxter's the Butcher's were brilliant

[@Hollcall]

My Maternal Grand dad was from Lancashire. Dad was a Holland from Canada via Scotland. { Holland-Irish name }

[@clivebond7858]

Those are some fine pies sir, take a bow.

[@Lelliott1122]

My God! My mouth is watering profusely! I want one, now❤️ Total YUM!

[@kynchan3332]

To cut the beef easily partially freeze it so it is solid and not wobbling around.

[@exile220ify]

Stoke On Trent oatcakes. Try it with a variety of fillings: bacon rashers, tomatoes, melted cheese, sausage, etc.

[@Keefcooks]

According to several Stokies who've watched my video, mine are no good. But here it is anyway and please don't ask me to do it again. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4ebi6uZmpuqfbc

[@barbarawhittall2311]

Yummy! I’m so hungry must try! Thank you!

[@freestyIer2009]

Currently eating a hollands meat and potato pie now 😂 obviously easily pleased.

[@Keefcooks]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@freestyIer2009]

@@Keefcooks yes! Was full of regret afterwards though, to be fair 😂

[@mr.piechipsandbakedbeans7967]

Ey up m'lad our lad our goer Keef. Aye, just watched yer video on 'Meat and Potato Pie' - yer really knows how to tek me back 'ome, lad. Nowt like a good pie on a cold night in Barnsley. Holland's Pies, proper legendary them, aren’t they? I eat'em when I’m watchin’ Barnsley play at 'Well - perfect matchday grub! Mind, I reckon nowt beats makin' yer own from scratch like you did. That’s summat special, Keef. Proper chuffed watchin' yer knock up a pie in kitchen. Looked bang on - crust golden, meat tender, spuds just right. Reckon even me mam be impressed with that. Can't wait to see what you knocks up next. Keep them pies comin'!

[@adamjessup293]

Hi from NZ! Just watching you eat the control pie. Cringed and felt sorry for you when you burnt your mouth. We have a saying... always blow on the pie 😊😊 like you we love our pies here!!

[@Keefcooks]

Yeah, don't know why I didn't blow on it...

[@battleoneliac]

These videos make me so happy.

[@DavidFSloneEsq]

Nice. Does the Mrs. have a channel that I can check out while you're muttering around in the kitchen?

[@Keefcooks]

She used to have a poetry channel, but it's been neglected for a few years - don't know if it's still active.

[@DavidFSloneEsq]

It's hard to monetize poetry, unless it's hip hop.

[@foodblues8461]

The pie looks good, the chatting about Discworld was even better.

[@Keefcooks]

I'm surprised how many Pratchett fans have come out of the woodwork. Just don't call me Dibbler!