Sunday 7 June 2009

Ginsters of Cornwall

Ginsters pies made their debut with the pie munchers on the first Sunday of June. A clockwise walk around Ludham water tower would ready our palates. Parking at Ludham Village hall we headed north to Catfield, along footpaths to All Saints church, Catfield where we had lunch at two and a half miles. The church provided us with shelter from a shower that had just started and also provided scratch dial #150 for our collection. A swift half-mile walk, in light rain, to the welcoming Crown Inn public house, with a splendid map showing U-boats sunk in WWII, for a pint of Humpty Dumpty. Here the Pie Master bumped into an ex-work colleague, “Agent Perez”! Donning waterproofs all, the munchers headed south via roads and tracks to walk yards away from the 1980 wineglass style water tower. We finally joined the A1062 Yarmouth Road with cyclists streaming by, all taking part in the Norfolk 100-mile cycle event. We returned to the village hall, where the Bowling Green had been left unlocked, enabling us to utilise the table and sofa under the veranda for the partaking of tea and pie. No canapés today as Kink Canape was dining at the Artichoke in Broome. Cutting the pie revealed a pink meat filling that was pleasing to the eye, other than the fact that it had only the merest hint of jelly. Munching the pie revealed a pleasant crust and an under spiced meat filling. The scores resulted in an average of 6.1 with a standard deviation of 1.14018. So a normalised score of 6 for Ginsters of Cornwall.