do pork pies need jelly

[biggs682]

Jelly, yes in the right places and quantity. But Vern is the expert and I bow to his superior knowledge

@Rockymountain i dont disagree with you

 

[Saluki]

That sounds very good to me, pork pie without the pork. Do you like the pastry at the sides as well as the top? Do you like a soggy bottom the slightly soggy pastry at the base of the pie?

I like good quality pork pies as they have excellent pastry all around. Not cheapy horrible PPs, even Millie-dog doesn't like cheapy horrible PPs. She is very particular. Hot Watercrust pastry is just the best and I have only found it wrapped around disgusto pork and jelly. Thank God for my dog.

 

[vernon]

I like good quality pork pies as they have excellent pastry all around. Not cheapy horrible PPs, even Millie-dog doesn't like cheapy horrible PPs. She is very particular. Hot Watercrust pastry is just the best and I have only found it wrapped around disgusto pork and jelly. Thank God for my dog.

When it comes to pastry, nothing beats a good shortcrust pastry wrapped around any good savoury filling. Hot water pastry pie crusts are difficult to master and even more difficult to bake thoroughly without a doughy inner surface.

Sisson's of Pocklington
Greenwood's of Boroughbridge
Taylor's of Darlington
Appleton's of Ripon

All have top notch crusts. All but Taylors pies score 9 or 10 on the piemeister scale.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Jelly Pies need to be piping hot , bite in and drink that fat mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Amanda P]

Vern, have you tried the butcher just by the mini-roundabout half-way up the main street in Norton? And if so, what's your verdict?

 

[vernon]

Vern, have you tried the butcher just by the mini-roundabout half-way up the main street in Norton? And if so, what's your verdict?

Fletcher's? It's on my to do list. I might get to it before I do the next York CTC audax that takes me out that way. Wherever possible I visit pie shops by bicycle and limit myself to two pies per ride.

I have been known to overule myself.

 

[ianrauk]

I like the jelly. Both warm and cold. So there!

 

[vernon]

I like the jelly. Both warm and cold. So there!

Good for you.

 

[Amanda P]

That's the one. I tried a pie from there years ago after hearing it praised to the skies by a sludging crew over the CB. I wondered how an expert would rate them.

Don't bother with Fox's in the Market Place in Malton. Their pies are rubbish.

 

[Over The Hill]

I now want a pork pie!

 

[derrick]

It's not a Pork Pie without jelly. and i ain't going to argue about it, that is how it is.

 

[ianrauk]

It's not a Pork Pie without jelly. and i ain't going to argue about it, that is how it is.

Pork Pie Jellynista's unite

 

[vernon]

It's been really amusing watching folk take sides on the jelly/no jelly divide.

I only made the observation that a great pie is not defined by the presence of jelly.

There is no definitive answer.

I've eaten great pies with and without jelly. I've also attempted to eat some foul pies with and without jelly.

The top pies that I've awarded tens to cover both bases.

 

[accountantpete]

Hot PP's have to have jelly.

Cold PP's taste better without jelly IMHO.

 

[tony111]

Can a bad pork pie be converted into a good pork pie by smothering in brown sauce?