Sunday 27 April 2008

E.E. Pratt and Co.

I had a good feeling about the final pie of the month from E.E. Pratt & Co., Quality Family butchers of 4, High Road Drayton. The pies looked good, the staff enthused over them and they were fresh – still hot out of the oven. To get ourselves chomping at the bit, ten of us plus Giada set off on a walk to Thurton and back taking in four churches, the first two having no dials & the third, two. To get our taste buds limbered up we popped into the beer festival at the George & Dragon (where the previous owners of the Wig & Pen, & Murphy had moved to). Our final church @ Thurton yielded our third scratch dial before the final leg of the walk to the pies. After consuming Charles’ canapés, the pies were carved into 72º portions. The pies were baked in round foil cups and had a dark flat top. Inside a firm bright pink meaty filling with a small amount of jelly hit the spot on the aesthetic front and the aroma sent Giada wild! Tasting proved to be good, coming in with a score of 8.8 and a standard deviation of 0.63246. So, a normalised score of 9 for E.E. Pratt & Co.. After an unexciting start, the month ends on a high.