Devizes Pie

During the summer of 1928 a Wiltshire man who had made his home in New Zealand, wrote to the Town Clerk of Devizes to ask for the recipe of Devizes Pie. No one in the town had ever heard of it; then a recipe appeared in a small collection of county recipes, but no date was given nor its source. The Editor of this book, however, who was visiting Devizes discovered in her note-book (dated 1927) that it is given by Mrs. Dalgairns (1829), and the following year she found the fo