Too hot for Pork Pies!

The hot weather not finding Favour with the Pie Master, he had failed to procure pork pies earlier in the week! Josie had decided it was too hot to walk, so the Pie Master thought it prudent to stay at home too. Other pie munchers too called off due to the heat. Four intrepid pie munchers, sans pies, headed for Sheringham. Parking by the approach road to Sheringham, they made their way through Upper Sheringham and through Sheringham Park seeing many butterflies. Crossing the North Norfolk Railway line to the beach, they headed east where they took refreshment in "The Lobster" public house. Here they observed a chap playing with his model railway set up, complete with a locomotive and carriages with "Say No Tesco" livery. Leaving the town, they headed towards Beeston Regis, following the beck to Back Common. Then back into Sheringham woods where they got a little lost! They made it back to the car for tea with Spanish omelette.

Photographs by José Luis

José Luis also alerted the Pork Pie News to this wooly pie by Kate Jenkins:

Icarus Hines

We headed to Swaffham for our first pie appetising walk of the month – a loop round the countryside north of Swaffham - not that extreme as we hadn’t been issued with jungle kit, so had no machetes to hack a path through the proposed route! A half-mile detour along the side of the A1065 had to be substituted. We arrived back at Swaffham at the church of St Peter & St Paul, unfortunately with no scratch dial and all locked up. We had a poor pint of Tom Wood’s at the Red Lion after visiting the Italian market then returned to the car to sample another new pie – the sixth new pie in a row. These were small hand raised pies from Icarus Hines of Sheringham. The meat filling was dark, slightly pink and had a fine texture. The pie was tasty with pleasant light crust, though Charles thought it a bit lardy, the filling was tasty with a definite presence of sage in the seasoning. The pies were well liked resulting in a score of 8.1 with a low standard deviation of 0.22361, so a normalised 8 for Icarus Hines small pies.

Aldi's Crestwood

We went to Sheringham today to sample Crestwood pies from Aldi, a cheap pie with tasty pastry but the meat filling had no taste, resulting in a poor normalised score of 5.