British Pie Week | Croots Farm Shop Pie Week is the,to Sunday 10th March.
Put forward your local winners!
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Savour slow-braised beef…
A dopamine triggering statement if ever there was one.
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This place: https://www.theredlionwestdeeping.co.uk/ has the best food within at least 25 miles of where I live. It’s not cheap, but they source as locally as technically feasible, and the chef/co-owner is a habitual forager as well as a truly excellent cook.
We go a handful of times a year, and went last week, where I had a belly-pork and black-pudding pie, with the most perfect hybrid filo/flaky crust I’ve ever encountered. The fat from the BP is cooked separately and served as frangible wafers of exquisitely salty, fatty crackling. I’ve had different, and excellent, pies elsewhere, but this was outstanding!
With tips, three courses cost about £80 a head. But I’d rather do this every few months than weekly at somewhere barely average, which is Lincolnshire’s norm.
FWIW, the beer is superb, too.
Sorry, couldn’t find a pic worth a toss!
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and the winner is…
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Just read the article… I love the etymology of old phrases.
At that time the poor ate pies made from the entrails of venison, which are called umbles - hence the expression 'to eat umble pie".
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Yeah, picked that up as well. New to me, I’ll be quoting that one.
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Just need a West Lothian to come to bake offs with a large parcel of kebab pies
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