Research has begun. After an hour long, round trip, to 
Norfolk Street Bakery,
here is what they provided.
It was all going so well until 
They look the business. Compare the thin delicate shell on this:
to the armour-plated carapace on this:
For the third time:
A thickish shell is OK, providing it is suitably flaky with a mix of crunch and chewiness. The
Sainsbury’s example looks dry and hard.
It was dryer and harder than Satan’s foreskin. Appallingly unpleasant. I bought two, the second was binned.
speaking from experience
I might well be willing to attempt a second serving of Beelzebub’s bell-end before I would have another go at Sainbury’s Pistake de Nasty.
No chance.
new kitchen just a show room then? too perfect to be used?
Submitted; unless one can master making the pastry there is no advantage to the home baker attempting PDN.
Discuss.
Meh!
Fuck the discussion. If I want PDN, I want it now. Not after 3 hours of fucking around generating an aneurysm when it all inevitably goes tits up.
Making your own puff pastry is the ultimate demonstration that you have too much time on your hands.
Faff denier!
At least you can get one - when I asked at my local bakers he said “what? - Pasties De Norfolk did you say?”
Eccles Cakes though.
VB
Waitrose - raspberry, blueberry and 2x normal
The raspberry is actually very nice but I’m sure there will be abject outrage they aren’t ‘proper’
Do they do cherry?
any marmite ones?
