Your Pie Master (and his mawther) ventured into Suffolk in the hope of finding a foreign porky delicacy! Finding that the once famous Ronnie Cook butchers of Lowestoft had given up several years ago, a visit to near by
E. C. Longworth & Son Family Butchers of 147, High Street, yielded pork pies that the butcher enthused about. When questioned, he admitted that he didn’t make them but imported them from Gt. Yarmouth – so a new pie for us. Seven pie munchers and a conscientious objector set off in the pouring rain from Sea Palling towards Eccles on Sea and then inland to Hempstead church for lunch. Giada made the most of the large puddles on the approach to the church... St. Andrew’s provided another scratch dial – the first for a few weeks.
Giada in a puddle Hempstead scratch dial
Returning to Eccles on Sea, we then walked along the beach back to Sea Palling taking in the
Old Hall Inn for a pre pie pint. Returning to the cars we got straight into the pork pies, their being no canapés. The pies had a very bright coloured crust and had no jelly and a firm meat filling that failed to impress, the predominant taste was salt. We all seemed to agree, with a 0.56696 standard deviation, that these pies were below average coming in with a score of 6.71429. Then the Belgian biscuit selection had another outing to conclude proceedings. So that’s a normalised 6.5 for E. C. Longworth.
