Hempnall Butchers

Liz provided a large pie from Hempnall Butchers to put before the pie munching panel after they had worked up an appetite after walking around Blythburgh and Wenhaston, visiting St. Peters’s church and admiring the c. 1480 painting of painting of the Last Judgement. At the end of our walk we admierd newer paintings, visiting British Water Tower Appreciation Society's exhibition of water tower inspired art in the village hall. The pie had a nice crust, a very tasty meat filling with plenty of jelly giving this pie a very good normalised score of 8.5, not only giving it the title of "Pie of the month" but also taking it to the top of the league table.

Fryer's

Fryer's on Norwich Market produced pies with terrible pastry, but the meat interior was very pleasant. It scored a normalised 5 at South Pickenham, despite Margaret & Josie only awarding 2 points each.

Cumpstey’s

A very tasty medium pork pie from Cumpstey’s in Acle was sampled at Holkham producing a very respectable normalised 8 out of 10.

Tesco

Tesco provided one of their own brand pies for sampling at Halvergate. We wished they hadn't as it had no taste, though the pastry was crisp, helping it to a poor normalised score of 4.5.

Aldi's Crestwood

We went to Sheringham today to sample Crestwood pies from Aldi, a cheap pie with tasty pastry but the meat filling had no taste, resulting in a poor normalised score of 5.

Crusty Pie Company

Today at Caister-on-Sea, we sampled a large pie from the Crusty Pie Company, bought at the Royal Norfolk Show. This was a nice pie all round and scored a normalised 8 out of 10.

Pie tasting in Bramerton

Pie tasting by the river at Bramerton as we listened to John Taylor MBE (1921 - 2006) presenting his "Radio Times" show. We were joined by a large Spanish contingent for this pie tasting, though we have no records of the pies being consumed.