Homity

Following the homity pie from Totnes market, noticed towards the end of the post at reference 1, BH got around to making one today. Slightly more complicated recipe, not involving mashed potato, the primary ingredient at Totnes. Both looked and tasted rather good.

To my surprise, not to be found in 'Food in England', the 'Boston Cook Book' or 'Cuisine Familiale', although all three books included various kinds of vegetable flan, with fillings usually involving eggs and onions or eggs and leeks (but not both, as was the case today). Not to be found in OED either, not in the first edition anyway.

Absence from the first and the last of these may suggest that it was indeed an invention of hungry Land Girls during the second world war, rather than traditional Devon fare, both these theories being current in Epsom.

Reference 1: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/10/sailor-bill.html.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_in_England.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Cooking-School_Cook_Book.

Reference 4: https://psmv2.blogspot.com/2016/01/truffes.html. By coincidence published by Éditions de Montsouris of the Rue Gazan, while the current Maigret, noticed at reference 5, takes place around the next door Parc Montsouris of reference 6. The publisher seems to have expired.

Reference 5: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/10/maigret.html.

Reference 6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_Montsouris. But in error to the extent that the Parc des Buttes Chaumont is hardly due north of city centre. Not often that I catch Wikipedia out.