Quality pies return this week: medium pies from Hewitt’s of Church Plain, Mattishall. We sampled their small pies on the
8th June last year last year, when they scored a healthy 8.7. To get ourselves ready for the tasting, we headed west and parked by the
OS monument – what you or I would call a trig point, at
TF 794 201. From here we headed south down the road following Peddars Way until we came to a track that took us east a short distance, before we headed north up a track that became Sandy Lane. This took us to Great Massingham where we made our way to
St. Mary’s church. After searching for scratch dials and finding none, we ate our sandwiches in the huge porch. The church was locked and the shop holding the key was closed, so we made our way to the pub, finding a small
Giant Puffball in the churchyard, which was harvested and taken home by the Pie Master. “
The Dabbling Duck”
by the village green is a fine pub and provided us with pints of very tasty “Worth The Wait” from the local
Beeston Brewery, Wherry and stamps for our Woodforde’s Ale Trail. Also taking refreshment at this establishment was
Hugo with his mum and dad, together with cousin Darcey.
We left the watering hole and ventured west, along footpaths sampling wild plums on route. Then turning north for a short distance to join the metalled track that took us past the Braithwaite water tower – still in use by Anglian water. We again joined the Peddars Way and followed it south east to return to the cars, walking by fields of porkie pie filling! No canapés this week as King Canape was in London, so straight into the very good-looking pies with their high gloss crust. Slicing the pies revealed a pink filling, nicely jellied and a faint pleasant aroma. A very tasty, non-lardy crust enclosed a lightly spiced filling finding favour with all munchers. These pies tasted equally as good with or without mustard and scored 8.16666 out of 10 with a standard deviation of 0.51640, so a normalised score of 8 for Hewitt’s. Shortbread then accompanied any remaining tea.
Quality pies return this week: medium pies from Hewitt’s of Church Plain, Mattishall. We sampled their small pies on the 8th June last year last year, when they scored a healthy 8.7. To get ourselves ready for the tasting, we headed west and parked by the OS monument – what you or I would call a trig point, at TF 794 201. From here we headed south down the road following Peddars Way until we came to a track that took us east a short distance, before we headed north up a track that became Sandy Lane. This took us to Great Massingham where we made our way to St. Mary’s church. After searching for scratch dials and finding none, we ate our sandwiches in the huge porch. The church was locked and the shop holding the key was closed, so we made our way to the pub, finding a small Giant Puffball in the churchyard, which was harvested and taken home by the Pie Master. “The Dabbling Duck”
by the village green is a fine pub and provided us with pints of very tasty “Worth The Wait” from the local Beeston Brewery, Wherry and stamps for our Woodforde’s Ale Trail. Also taking refreshment at this establishment was Hugo with his mum and dad, together with cousin Darcey.
We left the watering hole and ventured west, along footpaths sampling wild plums on route. Then turning north for a short distance to join the metalled track that took us past the Braithwaite water tower – still in use by Anglian water. We again joined the Peddars Way and followed it south east to return to the cars, walking by fields of porkie pie filling! No canapés this week as King Canape was in London, so straight into the very good-looking pies with their high gloss crust. Slicing the pies revealed a pink filling, nicely jellied and a faint pleasant aroma. A very tasty, non-lardy crust enclosed a lightly spiced filling finding favour with all munchers. These pies tasted equally as good with or without mustard and scored 8.16666 out of 10 with a standard deviation of 0.51640, so a normalised score of 8 for Hewitt’s. Shortbread then accompanied any remaining tea.
