Cheese, Onion and Potato Pies

This is the picnic food of fondest imagination, although actually we eat these for ordinary tea in the kitchen fairly often. I say ‘we’: that’s to say I make them for the children, then snaffle down a couple myself. I love them as much cold as warm, which is why I’ve suggested you make eight.

The trick, if trick it be, is to use spring onions, which have all the flavour but none of the BO-ey breath of the usual onion, as in cheese & onion, component.

I use Yorkshire pudd