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Recipe name: Fish and Mushroom Pie
Recipe by: Paul in England
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Description: 
Preparation time: 1.5hours
Serves: 4
Amount/Measure/Ingredient:

8oz assorted mushrooms
1lb cod
1lb smoked haddock
1pint milk

Sauce
2oz butter
1 medium onion
1 stick celery
2 table spoons lemon juice
1/2 hand full chopped fresh parsley

Topping
5 fist sized potatoes boiled and mashed
Preparation:

Butter an oven proof dish, chop the mushrooms and scatter over the base.
Skin and bone the fish then dice and scatter over mushrooms, add a few pinches of salt/pepper to taste. Pour the milk over the top and cover with lid or tin foil, place in heated oven 200C for 20 minutes.

Sauce

Drain off the poached milk in a jug. Melt butter in a frying pan, fry onion/celery finely chopped until soft but not discolored. Stir in the flour and take off cooker, add the poached milk slowly whilst stirring constantly, when all the milk has been stirred in, put pan back on hob and simmer. Stir continuously until thickened into a creamy sauce
add lemon and parsley and simmer until thick and creamy again, now pour over the fish in the oven proof dish and top with mashed potatoes. Return to the oven at 200C for 30-40 minutes or until topping is golden brown.

Reformatted from a recipe submitted to Good Cooking © '2002 by Good Cooking, Inc.