Gourdon - Sea Pie An' All That

Gourdon 1938

- Lifeboat 'Margaret Dawson'

Favourite Recipes

This site was last updated 5th April 2011

This is a true storey as related by Lizzie and Roy Souter who were witness to it happening.
All the characters would be remembered by older residents in Gurden

In the 1930s Jockie Fergie and Geordie Henderson had a horse and cart with which they would deliver fish ,vegetables etc to shops and houses in the area Two brothers Jimmy and Frankie Anderson had a shop at the harbour known to locals as JimmyFrankies .When delivering here Jockie would reverse the horse and cart up the side as the entrance door was at the side and would shout at the horse "Back Up" "Back Up " The Andersons had a parrot "Frankie" which was an excellent mimic and they would place it in its cage outside on the street in fine weather. One day Jockie had the cart full of fish when he stopped nearby needing to get to the toilet in a hurry and left the horse and cart standing on the street The parrot was then heard to screech "Back Up "several times and the horse thinking it heard Jockies voice backed the cart straight into the harbour. Local fishermen including Roy Souter had to rescue the horse before it drowned. The parrot lived to a ripe old age before dying in a smoke filled house when it was later owned by Georgina Gowans.

SEA PIE RECIPE BY LIZZIE SOUTER

(The Ferryden fisher recipe is slightly different so no complaints please)

Ingredients (if you want):-

1oz butter
pinch of salt and pepper
6 to 8 potatoes
1/2lb stewing steak or, if you're tight, minced beef
4 ozs SR flour
1 teaspoonful gravy salt
2 oz Artora suet.
3 onions

Saute (posh for fry) the chopped up onions in the butter.
Half fill the soup pot (oh aye, I forgot to tell you that you need a soup pot) with water and bring to the boil.

Add the meat and boil for 1 and 1/2 hours then add the chopped up potatoes along with a teaspoonfull of gravy salt and salt and pepper.

After another 1/4 hour add the doughballs which you mix up with the flour and Artora suet or butter (see below for doughballs if you're granny never told you how to make them).

Contine boiling for the remaining 15 minutes and Bobs your uncle its ready - enjoy with a tear in your eye thinking about Gourdon Harbour.

Doughballs

Using an enamel bowl (pronounced bowel) steer up the floor and suet or butter with water until it's doughy (strangely enough). Roll into balls and plop them into the soup.

Thanks toLizzie Souterin Gourdon for this recipe.