Old Fashioned Fish Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 cloves
1 onion, halved
3 cups milk
1 bay leaf
450 g blue-eye cod, skinned,pin boned
450 g smoked haddock or 450 g cod
3 hard-boiled eggs, roughly chopped
350 g cooked small shrimp, peeled,tails removed,vein removed
75 g butter
1/2 cup plain flour or 1/2 cup all-purpose flour (75g)
200 ml heavy cream
1 pinch of grated nutmeg
2 tablespoons chopped dill
2 tablespoons chopped flat leaf parsley
4 sheets butter puff pastry
1 egg, beaten

Preparation

Stick cloves into onion halves and place in a saucepan with milk, bay leaf and fish.
Bring to the boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer for about 8 minutes.
Remove fish with fish slice and cool slightly.
Strain cooking liquid into a jug, discard solids.
Flake fish into large chunks, discarding any bones, then season.
Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat.
Add flour and cook, stirring for 1-2 minutes.
Add reserved liquid and cook, stirring until mixture starts to thicken.
Add cream and simmer for 5 minutes.
Add nutmeg and herbs, then season.
Pour over fish, then cool.
Preheat oven to 180oC.
Pour mixture in four 500ml pie dishes.
Cut 1cm-wide strips from the edge of pastry sheets.
Press around rims of dishes and brush with a little water.
Cut off any excess pastry.
Cut 2 small slashes in tops for steam.
Brush pastry with egg and bake for 25 mintues or until pastry is risen and golden.