Cooke’s Pies & Mash

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Introduction
Founded in 1862, Cooke’s are the oldest surviving Pie & Mash shops in the East End. These began as Eel & Pie shops as early as the 1700s. The model, one of two based on Victorian terraces at Pateley Bridge in North Yorkshire, was issued in 2003.

150 Hoxton Street, E8. A large cafe is left, with counter below on the right. 

 Delayed by rain in Kendal then lost on the Yorkshire Moors, we reached Pateley Bridge after dark and will have to return! Rounded windows like Hazle’s top one can be found further up the High Street.

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Hazle Ceramics
Cooke’s Pies & Mash
Limited Painting of 30
on Pateley Bridge 1

Famous “green liquor”. 
It is in fact parsley sauce and Cooke’s is made to a secret old family recipe. Pies are minced beef now, with veggie ones too. Jellied eels, far right, are an optional side dish!
 Joe Cooke, owner of the Hoxton Street shop.

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History of Pie & Mash
In Victorian London 600 piemen walked the streets. This was how to get your takeaway! The piemen rowed early to Billingsgate Fish Market, beside the river Thames since the 1600s, to buy eels. These had long been a staple food for poor Londoners. Eel pies baked the same day were sold while still fresh. By the late 1800s Eel & Pie Shops offered mashed potatoes too and street sellers declined. From the 1950s convenience foods started the demise of Pie and Mash shops. Today there is a revived interest - and you can buy on the internet!

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19 Broadway Market, E8. In the left window is a tank of live eels. Once common, now only Cooke’s have them. 

 Traditional tiled counter. Sawdust on the floor dates from when eel bones were spat out!