Wm Morrison (star shaped) hand raised pies

Seven pie munchers headed south towards Brigham to sample the last pie of the month: star shaped, hand raised pies from Wm Morrison. These pies looked very similar to Crantock’s West Country pies, sampled on the 19^th June last year. Parking at the car park by Peddars Way on High Bridgham Road, we set off eastwards along quiet roads to Bridgham, visiting the church of St. Mary the Virgin, which yielded no scratch dials. We then headed south via footpaths that took us through West Harling Common. Heading west, towards Thorpe Woodlands Caravan Park, a grass snake some 18” – 24” long wriggled across our path, just in front of us. At the caravan site shop, that was conveniently closed, was a picnic bench that we utilised for our lunch stop. We then made our way back to the cars via Peddars Way, crossing the River Thet at a particularly beautiful spot. Here we lingered to watch the damselflies and dragonflies mob each other. On reaching the cars the feast unfolded: first King Prawns with a Marie Rose Sauce, then the pies and Shortcake bringing up the rear. The pies when sliced revealed a coarse pink interior but no aroma. Tasting was a pleasant experience, the pastry very good and the filling finding favour with most, but slightly too salt and under spiced for myself, resulting in a score of 7.21429 with a standard deviation of 0.75593. So a normalised score of 7 for Wm Morrison (star shaped) hand raised pies. We stopped on the way home for a pint at the Larling Angel to complete proceedings.