M and M Rutland Butchers

Gelderston was the location to try these fine pork pies that Paul had purchased from M & M Rutland Butchers, in an attempt to provide the best pork pie. Not only had he chosen to source his pies from a quality butcher, he had an accomplice in Liz - he'd bought them frozen & Liz had cooked them just hours before they were sampled for optimum freshness... it paid off, for these pies with a little onion marmalade came in with a stonking score of 9.28571 with a standard deviation of 0.56695. This gives M & M Rutland a normalised score of 9.5, the same as Mrs. King but she had a lower standard deviation and higher native score, so appropriately, retains her crown.

Samphire

After some fresh sea air, we sampled a couple of pies from "Samphire" at Blickling Hall that Liz had kindly purchased, after our walk at Blakeney. These had a nice light crust with a crumbly meat filling scoring 7.875 with a standard deviation of 0.51755, so a normalised score of 8 for Samphire.

Hempnall Butchers

Liz provided a large pie from Hempnall Butchers to put before the pie munching panel after they had worked up an appetite after walking around Blythburgh and Wenhaston, visiting St. Peters’s church and admiring the c. 1480 painting of painting of the Last Judgement. At the end of our walk we admierd newer paintings, visiting British Water Tower Appreciation Society's exhibition of water tower inspired art in the village hall. The pie had a nice crust, a very tasty meat filling with plenty of jelly giving this pie a very good normalised score of 8.5, not only giving it the title of "Pie of the month" but also taking it to the top of the league table.