steak and kidney pie
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- noun
- /steɪk ənd ˈkɪdni paɪ/
- UK
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pastel de carne y riñones
- For dinner, we had a delicious steak and kidney pie filled with tender meat and gravy.
Examples
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"I can clearly remember in the 1970s eating steak and kidney pie while she was eating Ryvita and cottage cheese.
Academic text (2009) -
Steak and kidney pies
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It's steak and kidney pie.
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I left out the steak pieces in my steak and kidney pie.
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One steak and kidney pie, and sauce.
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Sitting in front of a half-eaten steak and kidney pie.
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Ate blood pudding on a recent cruise every morning; steak and kidney pie is excellent.
Blog text (14) -
Steak and kidney pie with nice dainty dumplings well worked in.
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Steak and kidney pie.
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- REMEMBER THAT TIME GRANDMA MADE US STEAK AND KIDNEY PIE?
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: a pie (pastry) made with steak and kidney, so a learner who knows 'steak', 'kidney', 'pie', and 'and' can infer it refers to a pastry containing those ingredients. This noun phrase construction (ingredient1 and ingredient2 + pie) is cross-linguistically common and therefore immediately comprehensible, though learners unfamiliar with kidneys as food might need cultural context.
Etymology
Steak and kidney pie comes from the simple idea of putting pieces of beef steak and a kidney into a baked pie to make a filling meal. So today the name means 'a pie filled with steak and kidneys'.