Dickinson & Morris Melton Mowbray Pie

The first Sunday of April threatened snow again, so unsure of how many would turn out for pie tasting, I stuck with a known decent pie – a Dickinson & Morris Melton Mowbray Pie. Ricky kept us near to home for our pre pie walk, starting at Dunston. It then became apparent why he wasn’t wearing his bright yellow AA man’s overalls – as the walk began with a trespass across the grounds of Dunston Hall! We made our way to Swainsthorpe, passing close to the old workhouse at Henstead and affording a good view of the former water tower, now converted to a dwelling. Returning to Dunston we sampled the Dickinson & Morris offering, scoring a very respectable 8.64286 with standard deviation of 0.47559, so Dickinson & Morris scores a normalised 8.5. Previously it had scored a normalised 7.5 at Swanton Abbott on the 29th July last year and 9 at Wood Norton near Guist on 9th March 2006.

Converted water tower at Henstead workhouse