Main ingredients Meat or fish | ||
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Alternative names Cipaille, cipâtes, six-pâtes Similar Tourtière, Cretons, Pouding chômeur, Pâté chinois, Oreilles de crisse |
The sea pie and the sad sailor
Sea-pie is essentially a layered meat pie made with meat or fish, and is known to have been served to British sailors during the 18th century. Its popularity was passed on to the New England colonies sufficiently to be included in American Cookery.

In Quebec this dish is called cipaille, cipâtes or six-pâtes (in French), and is a traditional Quebec dish. It contains no fish or other seafood, but moose, partridge, hare, beef, veal, pork and chicken (or a simpler permutation of these). The French name most likely originated as an adaptation of sea-pie.



References
Sea-pie Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA