Chicken Pie

We ate our chicken pie on Friday nights, with gobs of Maggi tomato ketchup and Lingham’s chilli sauce. It was always a hearty meal and very much a part of our family ritual. My dad would finish off the gravy with French loaf bread (baguette). Again, like paper-wrapped chicken, it was always a surprise to see what chicken part we would dig out of the pie. Sometimes, my mother also made chicken pie for after-school lunch.

Like an old-fashioned mother, she made her pie crust from scrat