Also squob-pie. [Cf. SQUAB sb. Chiefly current in western and south-western counties.] A pie chiefly composed of mutton, pork, apples, and onions, with a thick crust.
1708. W. King, Cookery, 164. Cornwall squab-pye, and Devon white-pot brings.
1778. Mores, Diss. Typogr. Founders, 69, note. Probably he was a Gloucestershire man and remembered squab-pie, an olla podrida of horrible ingredients.
1800. Southey, in Cottle, Rem. Coleridge & S. (1847), 22. Neither Pilchards, White-ale or Squab-pie were to be obtained.
1865. Kingsley, Herew., v. Most savoury of all the smell of fifty huge squab pies.
1880. Adam & Eve, 281. Laden with the remnants of a squab-pie … and a couple of apple pasties.
fig. 1897. Jane, Lordship, xix. 209. The great matter being that I had made squob-pie of Robert.
