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‘British Pie Week’ 🥧 4th-10th March




It’s ‘British Pie Week’. Here is a short Dementia Cafe CST activity focusing on different pies and fillings.


First, as members who is a good baker, or who used to be?

If they were baking a pie, what ingredients and method would they use for the pastry? What about their preferred pie filling?

Next, play the picture quiz and enjoy the music ... perhaps with a cup of tea and a slice of pie.




Name the savoury pie



Ask members to pick their favourite ...




Name the sweet pie




Ask members to pick their favourite ...






General knowledge




Which late and great lady used to enjoy a 'Fray Bentos' pie when she travelled by plane or train?

In the rhyme 'Sing A Song Of Sixpence', how many blackbirds were baked in a pie?

In the rhyme, who "put in his thumb and pulled out a plum"?

How many magPIES are for gold?

What is this picture idiom (well known phrase) saying?

Name the dough boy?

Name the flour men?

Which movie saw 'gangsters' shooting each other with custard pie?

Which 'Voice Of An Angel' sang 'PIE Jesu'?

Which friends character mixed up recipes for trifle and mince pie?

Which TV chef always checked for a "soggy bottom'?

What does "eating humble pie" mean?





Here are a few songs with the words "pie" in the lyrics ...



Apart from Dean Martin, who was in 'The Rat Pack'?

What was 'Four Tops' only number one UK hit in 1966?

Who was 'The Music' that died in 1959?





Savoury pies


Shepherd's pie Cornish pasty

Melton Mowbray Pork Pie

Stargazey pie

Quiche Lorraine

Pie & Mash

Steak & Kidney pie Chicken & Mushroom pie

Fish pie

Beef Wellington

Homity (or Devon) pie

Vol eu vents


Sweet pies


Pumpkin pie Apple pie

Cherry pie

Peach cobbler

Tarte au tartin

Mississippi Mud Pie

Mince pie

Key lime pie

Lemon meringue pie

Banoffee pie

Pecan pie

Custard tart




Which late and great lady used to enjoy a 'Fray Bentos' pie when she travelled by plane or train?

HM Queen Elizabeth 11


In the rhyme 'Sing A Song Of Sixpence', how many blackbirds were baked in a pie?

24


In the rhyme, who "put in his thumb and pulled out a plum"?

Little Jack Horner


How many magPIES are for gold?

6


What is this picture idiom (well known phrase) saying?

Pie in the sky


Name the dough boy?

Pilsbury


Name the flour men?

Homepride


Which movie saw 'gangsters' shooting each other with custard pie?

'Bugsy Malone'


Which 'Voice Of An Angel' sang 'PIE Jesu'?

Charlotte Church


Which friends character mixed up recipes for trifle and mince pie?

Rachel


Which TV chef always checked for a "soggy bottom'?

Mary Berry


What does "eating humble pie" mean?

Saying sorry




Apart from Dean Martin, who was in 'The Rat Pack'?

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford


What was 'Four Tops' only number one UK hit in 1966?

'Reach Out I'll Be There'


Who was 'The Music' that died in 1959?

Buddy Holly



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