page_title: Game pie
section_title: Modern variants
hierarchical_section_title: Game pie / Modern variants
caption_attribution_description: Game pie at Roseleaf Bar come Cafe in Leith, Edinburgh
context_page_description: Game pie is a form of meat pie featuring game. The dish dates from Roman times when the main ingredients were wild birds and animals such as partridge, pheasant, deer, and hare. The pies reached their most elaborate form in Victorian England, with complex recipes and specialized moulds and serving dishes. Modern versions are simpler but savoury combinations of rabbit, venison, pigeon, pheasant, and other commercially available game.
context_section_description: Many restaurants today serve game pies and there are many modern recipes,  but they are usually quite different from the traditional cold game pie. Commonly they contain a savoury stew of commercially available meats such as rabbit and venison, quail and pheasant, but not birds such as pigeons, thrushes, starlings, blackbirds, and crows that were commonly used in the past. They are usually served hot, and may have no shell but only a pastry cover – or in restaurants only a puff-pastry lid added at the last minute.
caption: Game pie as served in a cafe in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
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