Gumnut or Chicken and Leek Pies

When I went walking in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park with my botanist chum Libby Buhrich, she prepared a picnic that we hungrily ate after walking for miles looking at flora and fauna and the Aboriginal carvings. And one of the delicious aspects of that day were these little Gumnut Pies, shaped rather like English pork pies.

I am sorry to confess I forgot to ask her why they are called Gumnut Pies – something to do with the pastry decorations shaped like gumnut le