vindi sea pie recipe

[David Plank]

I remember friday dinner on the vindicatrix being called seapie back in 1959 when I was incarcerated there for my 12 weeks of (training).Does anyone know the recipe for this gourmet delight?

[Doc Vernon]

Just a small piece from the Vindi site but not the Recipe! LOL

Two lads came to our table ,they looked like something out of Dickens; “It’s sea pie for tea new boys , you can ‘ave a second portion for a fag “ It was the Artful Dodger and Smike.
We were loaded ,we had our packets of Woodbines and Players Weights ,we gave them some cigarettes anyway,we did’nt want their dinners for them. We had a lot to learn………
Dinner was served ,Sea Pie ,none of us had ever seen anything like it ,we could’nt begin to guess what was in it , it was pushed around the plates ,lifted up on forks and inspected,poked and prodded ,but I think that I was the only one to empty my plate . There a bit of a commotion as one the deck lads who had been working near the galley ,rushed in and gobbled up as much of the uneaten food as he could manage. Hmmmmm, we were beginning our education.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

HI David.
Give me a little time and I will find the recipe I know I have it somewhere. If you want to get some real memories get onto the Vindi site or if you you are a Vindi member get the book
"Vindicatrix by Roy Derham. It's all there you can be there by reading the book.
Cheers Des

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[Doc Vernon]

Some good reading online here too!
Cheers

https://books.google.com.au/books?id...Recipe&f=false


Link to Book as well
however very costly!!

Vindicatrix : The Story of a Ship and a Training School - DERHAM, ROY C.

[Doc Vernon]

More on this site about the Subject! LOL

http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/s...sea-pie-2.html

[Doc Vernon]

A stew of salt meat, potatoes, broken ship's biscuits, onions and available spices was known as "lobscouse". Meat and vegetables layered between crusts of biscuit flour was known as sea pie. The number of layers giving it the name double-decker or triple-decker. "Crackerjack" was a mixture of preserved meat mixed with ship's biscuits and soup if it was available. Fresh vegetables were usually only available for a short time after leaving a port.


Cooking At Sea: some marine gastronomy


If you add some leftover Meat and the above it isn't too far from the old Bubble and Squeak ??

[Des Taff Jenkins]

HI David.
I have spent a full day looking for that Vindi sea pie recipe, but for the life of me can't find it, must have lost it moving back to Aus from NZ, but if it does turn up I will post it.
Cheers Des

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[happy daze john in oz]

If memory serves the Vindi 'Sea Pie' was most likely made with sea water and sea weed. The potato top was more than likely shredded paper and the cheese came from a mouse trap.

[Keith Moody]

Doc. I read that artical on the first tripper, however I was even more interested from page 41 on as when he joined the Ruahine, it was as though I had written it, because a year after 1955 i too joined that ship as a bellboy and followed the same course of brass cleaning, swobbing out etc and working in the childrens resturant. I too was sick as a dog throughout the channel and Bay of Biscay, it was a good job the kids were also very sick.
we also followed the same route out and in. we also tried the delights of Belboa, rum was only 10cents a glass and that included the coke!!! the girls a little more expensive, most of them were Cuban and very pretty.
one thing he didn`t mention was that if you were in the shower and someone turned on the cold water tap in the sink, then the person in the shower got a blast of red hot water, most times this caused loud screams and a few naughty words directed at the person at the sink.
she was a good ship though and a happy one although there were a few ruffians on there.
my friend and i did 2 trips on her before we were told that we would not be coming back next trip.
keith moody
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[David Plank]

Thanks Des for the effort looking for the recipe,long ago memories.Dave.