Harvester’s Cheese and Tomato Pie

Harvester’s Cheese and Tomato Pie – This country recipe uses just five ingredients and makes a fabulous light lunch, snack or supper dish.

A Recipe from Ambridge, Borsetshire, Home to The Archers

Today is Lammas Day, also Yorkshire Day, it traditionally marks the start of harvest, and so what better than to share this Harvester’s Cheese and Tomato Pie recipe.

This simple recipe uses just five ingredients, and is so easy to make, but it makes a fabulous light lunch, snack or supper dish.

It’s made with stale bread, butter, cheese, suet and tomatoes, and that’s it. If you are vegetarian, than you can use vegetarian suet instead of beef suet.

The original recipe, which was in *The Archers Cookbook, suggests white bread; however I had made my Overnight Farmhouse Wholemeal Bread Loaf, and I had a couple of slices left that needed using.

The recipe says 6 slices of bread, but as I was using a large homemade loaf of bread, which I sliced thickly, I used 3 slices, and cut them in half.

I used a sharp, extra mature Cheddar cheese, and some rather glorious beefsteak tomatoes, which were just bursting with summer flavours.

My husband absolutely loved this recipe for Harvester’s Cheese and Tomato Pie, and he has asked for it several times again. He likened it to a baked cheese and tomato toastie.

Serve this with pickles, chutney,salad, cold meats and ham, or just by itself for a light snack. Use any stale bread you have to hand, granary and sourdough bread also works well.

One tip I will share, I found I used more butter than the 2 ounces (55g) suggested in the original recipe. I also used a little more cheese too.

For more information about Lammas, and Yorkshire Day, visit my post Lammas Day, Yorkshire Day and my Grandma’s Yorkshire Season Pudding with Herbs.

I hope you enjoy this country recipe if you make it – you can increase the quantities for more people, and of course, reduce them for one person. Enjoy! Karen

Cooking Notes

• I found I used more butter than the 2 ounces (55g) suggested in the original recipe. I also used a little more cheese too.
• Serve this with pickles, chutney, salad, or just by itself for a light snack. Use any stale bread you have to hand, granary and sourdough bread also works well.
• *The Archers:
• The Archers is a British radio soap opera broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the corporation’s main spoken-word station.
• Broadcast since 1951, it was famously billed as “an everyday story of country folk” and is now promoted as “a contemporary drama in a rural setting”.
• Having aired more than 20,000 episodes, it is the world’s longest-running drama, by both number of episodes and duration.

More Pies, Bread and Cheese Recipes

• Ration Book Cheese Pie
• Air Fryer Cheese on Toast
• Deep Dish Cheese & Tomato Flan

• 1950’s Picnic Pie
• The Land Girls Wartime Homity Pie
• Cheese & Onion Plate Pie

Sweet Pies and Tarts

• Yorkshire Sly Cake (Dried Fruit & Nut Pie)
• Old-Fashioned Lemon Meringue Pie
• Northumberland Gooseberry Plate Pie

Lammas Recipes

• Harvest Fruit & Cherry Tea Loaf
• Apple & Dorset Blue Vinny Scone Bread
• Northumbrian Harvest Tea Loaf

Harvester’s Cheese and Tomato Pie Recipe

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