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Forfar bridies: wedding treat or packed lunch?

Its origins may be disputed, but locals fiercely guard its reputation

Kirrimuir-born JM Barrie, author of Peter Pan, knew about bridies, giving them a place in his novel Sentimental Tommy, when Tommy’s homesick mother recalls it as a ‘sublime kind of pie’ that is offered to visitors at grander houses on Hogmanay.