Abbotsford Pork Pie

The final pie of the month was yet another new pie to us – an Abbotsford Pork Pie. This was sourced from Netto on the site of the former water tower at Swaffham. Only four braved the rain for this weeks pie tasting, Margaret was visiting Berchtesgaden and Charles was in New York, we did have Giada & Mickey though. We parked at Roughton church then headed south, then west to cross the A140 where we walked to Metton church for lunch and to be serenaded by Mickey. We returned via the New Inn at Roughton, which now sold real ale, where we watched Lewis Hamilton drive the last few laps at Monaco, to win the Grand Prix. Then on to Roughton church where we sampled this weeks pie: The pie was large but lacked the usual gloss finish, inside there was a little air and a small amount of Jelly around the pink meat filling. The pie tasted good, though the pastry was a little soft, rather than soggy, scoring 7.5 and a standard deviation of 0.40825. So, a very respectable score of 7.5 for Abbotsford, especially considering the pie only cost 99p and was purchased on Tuesday (use by date was the 26th). The Walk Master & Weather Wizard spared us from any extreme activities this week and also managed to dodge most of the rain, we had some very light rain where as Norwich had heavy rain most of the day.