Pork Pie Year 2008 Review

What a cracking pie year 2008 turned out to be – sampling 49 different pork pies (counting the two cheese topped “novelty” pies)! Now we have all the scores in, I can announce our top 5 pies of 2008:

1. Gloucester Old Spot from Picnic Fayre Deli sampled on 11th May
2. Graves of Briston, sampled on 9th March
3. E.E. Pratt & Co., Drayton, sampled on 27th April
4. Hewitt's, Mattishall, small pies, sampled on 8th June
5. Dickinson & Morris of Melton Mowbray, sampled on 6th April

Our all time top 5 pies are:

1. Mrs. King’s Melton Mowbray pie sampled on 26th November 2006
2. M & M Rutland sampled on 29th April 2007
3. Gloucester Old Spot from Picnic Fare Deli sampled on 11th May
4. Graves of Briston, sampled on 9th March
5. Tavern Tasty Meats from the Sausage Shop, sampled on 18th November 2007

That’s it for 2008, an excellent pie year, with two of the tastings making it to the All Time Greats. All it leaves me to do is wish you a good pie munching New Year.

Pie Master

Pork Pie Year 2007 Review

Now we have all the scores in, I can announce our top 5 pies of 2007:

1. M & M Rutland sampled on 29th April
2. Tavern Tasty Meats from the Sausage Shop, Holt, sampled on 18th November
3. P&S Butchers, Holt, sampled on 12th August
4. Massingham Brothers, Hoveton, sampled on 3rd June
5. Brays from the Prefect Pie Company, sampled on 8th July

Our all time top 5 pies are:

1. Mrs. King’s Melton Mowbray pie sampled on 26th November 2006
2. M & M Rutland sampled on 29th April
3. Tavern Tasty Meats from the Sausage Shop, Holt, sampled on 18th November
4. P&S Butchers, Holt, sampled on 12th August
5. Massingham Brothers, Hoveton, sampled on 3rd June

So an excellent pie year, with four of the tastings making it to the All Time Greats list, but non toppling Mrs. King.

Pie Master

Tavern Tasty Meats

A wet walk on Sunday 18th from Rollesby, thankfully produced a dog friendly pub in Martham, where we enjoyed a good pint and Giada got treats from the landlady. The walk unfortunately did not provide good views of the futuristic “space rocket” water tower at Martham, just 40,000 gallons at TG 45926 19003. Returning to Rollesby we sampled a pie from the Sausage Shop in Holt, who sell “Tavern Tasty Meats”. We actually tried one of these pies a year ago, on the 17th of November 2006! This was sourced from Wymondham Farmer’s Market by Ricky. Our pie scored a very respectable 8.9 with a standard deviation of 0.65912; previously Tasty Tavern’s offering scored a spot on 8.5 with a standard deviation of 0.83666 (we sampled smaller pies last year, so a higher pastry to meat ratio). So a consistent showing for Tavern Tasty Meats with a normalised score of 9. The 1960's “space rocket” water tower at Martham that we didn't get a good view of. A small, 40,000 gallon tank, at TG 45926 19003.

Tavern Tasty Meats

Ricky visited the Farmers Market in Wymondham to source this weeks pork pie: A pie from "Tavern Tasty Meats". After an appetising walk around Glandford the pie munching panel awarded this pie 8.5 out of 10 with a standard deviation of 0.83666.