This past week saw the 155th anniversary of the publication of Alice in Wonderland. It is one of my favourite books so I celebrated with a savoury impossible pie!
Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
This recipe comes from my vast collection of clipped recipes. I think that this one came from the wrapping of the deviled egg plate that my friend Ali gave me for my birthday a few years ago.
Impossible Pie?
“Why it’s simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don’t you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible.(chuckles)
Nothing’s impossible!”
The Impossible Pie was invented by Bis-quick in the 1970s. The idea was that instead of making a filling and a crust you could mix everything together and magically, in the oven, the ingredients would separate out so you end up with a crusted pie.
The OG impossible pie was coconut but since then pretty much every flavour imaginable has been made. Yinzerella over at Dinner is Served 1972 has made a number of them both sweet and savoury so if you want a primer in them, head over there pronto! Then come back here for my try at Savoury Impossible Pie!
My pie had peeled tomatoes, bacon, parsley, corn, spring onions and cheese – someone cue Blink 182 singing “All the good things” please!
It also looked like some sort of Klimptesque art when I started to mix it through. So pretty!
However, the success of an impossible pie surely has to lie in whether or not that magical crust appears. So was this recipe a success?
Was there a crust? There was something. But a proper pie crust? No. So technically…cooking fail.
Having said that, it was absolutely delicious. It may not have turned out exactly as planned but it was still worth making and definitely one to put on the rotation list!
You know what? If it bugs you like it bugged me that it wasn’t impossible, leave out the flour and call it a Klimt Garden Frittata. I promise I won’t tell anyone and believe me, you and your friends will love it!
Savoury Impossible Pie – The Recipe
“I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other; but the great question is ‘What?’”
And we’re done!
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end:
Then stop.”
