Grandmother Sharon’s Outer Banks Shrimp Stew with ‘Pie Bread’

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Preparation info
  • Feeds

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Grand Dishes: Time-perfected recipes and stories from grandmothers of the world

By Iska Lupton and Anastasia Miari

Published 2021

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Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 500 g (1 lb) shelled king prawns

Method

  1. Start with the pie bread. Combine the ingredients in a bowl, rubbing the butter into the flour with your hands. Season with salt and pepper and slowly add cold water a tiny bit at a time (around 60ml/¼ cup). Mix as you go and stop adding water when the flour firms up and comes together into a ball, but isn’t sticky or wet. Knead for 1 minute and set aside with a tea towe