More accurately, yesterday's pies.
During the FNRttC York to Hull I exchanged pies with
@Cubist and
@ComedyPilot and gave the spares to
@StuAff and
@Tim Hall.
My pies were from Wilson's of Leeds and tasting notes can be read
here.
8/10 from previous tasting
notes - score unaltered by the one I ate before setting off to York for the ride.
Cubist brought a fidget pie from Bolston Moor Farm and I'd previous scored it at 8.5/10 when eaten in the dark and I couldn't see it. I speculated that the taste and score might change when eaten sighted. This proved to be the case. The pie had a good crust and the stuffing and apple were perfectly balanced foils for the pork filling. Photos from the original tasting re-used here. I was too keen to eat the pie once I'd got to Hull that photographing it would have got in the way of pie yearning.
Score was upgraded to 10/10. Woo hoo!
The Tindalls of Driffield pie was a bit of a curiosity. The crust was a poorer variant of hot water pastry and had delaminated slightly. The filling was grey rather than pink, reminiscent of Melton Mobray pies and the taste was very different from the majority of pork fillings tasted so far. It was strangely familiar and the second bite identified the source of the mystery - it was not a peppery filling but more herbal with sage as the dominant note. The sage was not overwhelming and the taste was very nice and strangely familiar though not through pie eating. Much later the identification of the filling's taste was identified - sausage rolls of various provenance and not entirely out of place in a pie. I suspect that this is a pie best eaten warm.
8/10