Crantock’s West Country pies

A less challenging walk for our pie grazing warm up this week - a pleasant walk through Waveney Forest and then along the edge of Redwings horse Sanctuary to our lunch stop at St. Edmund's church, Fritton after only two miles! This yielded another scratch dial for the collection. The next 2 mile leg had the attraction of beer at the end. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a very indifferent pint served by an indifferent bar man at the Bell at St. Olaves. The final two-mile leg had the prize of a pork pie – supplied by our original Pie Master, Charles. These were star shaped, West Country pies from Crantock’s on Norwich Market. The pastry was not the traditional hot-water crust, more of a flaky pastry, and a little over cooked. The filling was good though, tasty but not heavily spiced. The lack of jelly did not prevent the pie getting a very respectable score, coming in at 8.333 but may have accounted for the high standard deviation of 0.8165. So that’s a normalised score of 8.5 for Crantock’s West Country pies.

Crantock’s West Country pies (Click picture to open in new window)