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avevale_intelligencer) wrote2010-03-14 02:28 am
avevale_intelligencer) wrote2010-03-14 02:28 am
Another culinary highlight of Wisbech
In the market place there is a butcher's shop, G W Frank. The Countess tells me that this is a genuine pork butcher of a kind that has all but died out. I can well believe it.
They sell hand-made pork pies.
Now I have eaten pork pies. I've had the supermarket own brand ones, maybe one step up from CMOT Dibbler's wares. I've had "Melton Mowbray" pies of various kinds. I've even had hand-made pies from a chain of butchers in London.
Never, till now, have I had such a perfect pork pie. One where you can actually tell that the meat is pork, where the flavour isn't drowned out with seasoning, where the pastry doesn't exude fat and the jelly is subtly flavoured and not just salty. I don't say I'll never eat a bog standard pork pie again--Wisbech is a long way away--but let's say I've acquired some perspective.
Really nice.
They sell hand-made pork pies.
Now I have eaten pork pies. I've had the supermarket own brand ones, maybe one step up from CMOT Dibbler's wares. I've had "Melton Mowbray" pies of various kinds. I've even had hand-made pies from a chain of butchers in London.
Never, till now, have I had such a perfect pork pie. One where you can actually tell that the meat is pork, where the flavour isn't drowned out with seasoning, where the pastry doesn't exude fat and the jelly is subtly flavoured and not just salty. I don't say I'll never eat a bog standard pork pie again--Wisbech is a long way away--but let's say I've acquired some perspective.
Really nice.