Pies from Cambridgeshire this week! The Pie Master visited Cambridge to photograph the water tower in the University Botanical Gardens and it’s internal pump, before it is demolished next month to make way for more green houses. While in Cambridge I took the opportunity to visit the establishment of Andrew Northrop to purchase pies. These were not made in-house, but sourced from a cottage industry in Peterborough, I was informed. The warm up for these was a six and a half mile yomp in the baking sun, that’s what Ricky had lined up for us. So as not to lose pie munchers to heat stroke, we headed for the coast (with everyone else) but too hot for Giada. A very pleasant walk from Gorleston-on-Sea where a helicopter was based, had us filling in a child’s survey in the woods, as we walked to Lound. Not visiting Lound church, we went on to St. Margaret’s church Hopton, passing a Mawkin family on a farm. St. Margaret’s church was closed for renovation work and being built in 1865 was too new for a scratch dial. We had lunch here before a short walk to the pub for a refreshing pint from Tipples Brewery. A walk along the beach included a brief stop while Manola, José and Don went for a swim... 
Returning to the car we sampled Panamanian King Prawns, prior to sampling the pies:These were small hand raised pies with a nice gloss finish. The meat filling was tasty but lacked a certain something, impressing some and disappointing others resulting in a very high standard deviation of 1.59948 with an average of 7.15, so not a bad pie on the whole. So that’s a normalised score of 7 for Andrew Northrop Family Butchers. Finally, Ricky did us proud by organising an air display over the sea while we were munching! Well-done Ricky!
Photographs © Pie Master and Jorge
