No pies today !

Some pie muchers were on holiday the rest had marched down south in the rain on the orders of the Führer without the pies!!! We didn't wish to join them making an early start, so ventured to Winterton-on-Sea with Giada and walked down the coast dodging the rain until the last 5 minutes when a little rain started. Once in the car the heavens opened - The Führer & Co. had been walking in this!

Josie and Giada with foamy feet on winterton beach

Fat Cat public house

Pies from the Fat Cat public house were to be sampled today. This was consumed at Bradenham and scored 7.91666 with a standard deviation of 0.37639. So the Fat Cat scores a normalised 8 on this occasion.

Frank Spurgeon

We sampled pies from Frank Spurgeon today after our pre-pie amble from Irstead. This is what I call a pork pie, nice pink meat with jelly on top. The pie munchers agreed, awarding Frank Spurgeon 8.14286 with a standard deviation of 0.24398. So a normalised score of 8 for Frank Spurgeon.

M and M Rutland Butchers

Gelderston was the location to try these fine pork pies that Paul had purchased from M & M Rutland Butchers, in an attempt to provide the best pork pie. Not only had he chosen to source his pies from a quality butcher, he had an accomplice in Liz - he'd bought them frozen & Liz had cooked them just hours before they were sampled for optimum freshness... it paid off, for these pies with a little onion marmalade came in with a stonking score of 9.28571 with a standard deviation of 0.56695. This gives M & M Rutland a normalised score of 9.5, the same as Mrs. King but she had a lower standard deviation and higher native score, so appropriately, retains her crown.

Brays

Organic Saddleback pork pies from Brays were sampled at Binham today. These were quite gamey, but hit the spot scoring a high 8.16666, just beating last weeks pie from Sillfield Farm. The standard deviation was a low 0.25. A normalised score of 8 then for Brays.

Sillfield Farm

Great Yarmouth was the venue to savor another great pork pie delicacy that Charles sourced from Borough Market. This large pie was from Sillfield Farm in the Lake District, who specialise in amongst other animals free range rare breed pigs. This probably accounts for the pies filling having a nice meaty texture scoring a tasty 8.23636 with a standard deviation of 0.74468, so a normalised score of 8 for Sillfield Farm.

Born in 2005, no two piglets were alike, the mother is a black and white Saddleback.

Heath Farm Foods

A pleasant walk around the wilds of Wymondham worked up an appetite for a medium pork pie from Heath Farm, following a pint of Canary in the Railway Tavern. It was raining, so that probably accounted for the fact that I did not record any details about the pie other than it scored 7.85714 with a standard deviation of 0.69007. So that's a normalised score of 8 for Heath Farm medium pies.