Pork Pies - with cheese!

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theplayingmantis

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3,767 posts

82 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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cheese topped one from M&S...divine...i have tatsed the future!


Harpoon

1,867 posts

214 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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You need to try a Dabbers Pie then - pork pie with pickle and Cheshire cheese in the middle.

http://goodfoodshops.blogspot.com/2009/09/nantwich...

Venisonpie

3,269 posts

82 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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My initial reaction would be that of a purist and say, no! However, interest piqued.

Mr.Chips

855 posts

214 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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I have tried the Dabbers pie from Nantwich and can agree that they are wonderful. Whenever I am passing through I buy a few to stock up the freezer. Inevitably, one of them is consumed before reaching home!

Kev_Mk3

2,765 posts

95 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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I am going to visit both shops as I love pork pies

ChrisnChris

1,423 posts

222 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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I tried a pork pie with something in it, from a supermarket, either Tesco or Waitrose, can't say which. It had some sort of pickle in it.

It was nasty. hurl

It would have to go into my box marked 'food mucked about with, for the sake of being mucked about with'
Almost as if someone, somewhere along the line had said, Those pork pies, what's their USP, we need to make them stand out, go away and come up with something that'll make them sell. We need to make money!
I'm thinking the cheese ones would go in the same box.

I'd be happy to try one though, I might be surprised. smile

theplayingmantis

Original Poster:

3,767 posts

82 months

Wednesday 21st August 2019
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i cant stand pickle, once made the mistake a few years ago as a youth of picking up a nice looking ham finger sandwich at cricket tea and biting into it to discover it had pickle in it i spat it out on the plate and gagged, much to the amusement of my colleagues. never risked a sandwich at cricket tea again!

M&S do pickle ones too, also gala pie...no thanks!


the cheese ones are amazing though, M&S also do chorizo one and bbq seasoned one amongst other variants. (these are the mini ones) the chorizo is meh the bbq ones i havent tried yet. I think in the past bacon ones and apple have been ok.

but then i eat mine warm...that way botulism lies but 40 seconds in microwave makes them so much nicer...sacrilege maybe but i don't really like them cold. The reason i do this is a i never used to like them until i was in melton mowbray once and went into some famous pie shop (dickinson and morris i think) and they were just out the oven so i had one there and it made me realize how nice warm they were.

also i only eat them from waitrose or M&S...i just dont trust the quality of the meat in others , although its all probably from the same place, and ive had chewy bits in M&S/Waitrose too. Even the D&M ones you can buy in some supermarkets ive found dubious (despite my previous devouring of them in there shop)

Mort7

1,487 posts

108 months

Wednesday 21st August 2019
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Bugger! Just read this thread, and now I want a pork pie....... lick

cherryowen

11,708 posts

204 months

Wednesday 21st August 2019
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A farm shop not far from the office does a pork pie without a pastry lid.

It uses, instead, a lid of Stilton

lick


TeeRev

1,644 posts

151 months

Wednesday 21st August 2019
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I only discovered that my local bakery does hot pork pies a few months ago when they didn't have my usual steak and kidney pie, bloody amazing, I can't believe I have wasted all those years eating them cold. They also do a peppery pork sausage roll, another winner.

dudleybloke

19,815 posts

186 months

Thursday 22nd August 2019
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cherryowen said:
A farm shop not far from the office does a pork pie without a pastry lid.

It uses, instead, a lid of Stilton

lick
The Stilton topped pork pie is a marvelous invention that doesn't get the recognition it deserves.

zygalski

7,759 posts

145 months

Thursday 22nd August 2019
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A thin layer of apple chutney between the pork filling and stilton lid, and I'm in.

theplayingmantis

Original Poster:

3,767 posts

82 months

Thursday 22nd August 2019
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BBQ one from M&S nothing special too much pastry.

Realised last night you are meant to heat the cheese topped ones up anyway. 1m in microwave

horsemeatscandal

1,230 posts

104 months

Friday 23rd August 2019
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Back in the day I used to whip the lid off a pork pie, spread a thick layer of Dairylea on there followed by a heavy cracking of black pepper. Probably one of my better culinary creations.

eskidavies

5,371 posts

159 months

Friday 23rd August 2019
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Owing to this thread I sent the wife to get some ,just ate one not that fussed ok but cheese to powerful,blanks out the meat ,so I ate another to make sure ,yeah a little to cheesy

Gandahar

9,600 posts

128 months

Saturday 24th August 2019
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Just buy a normal pork pie and then cheese etc with it. You get twice as much for half the price.

I can tell you lot don't come from Melton Mowbrey / Yorskshire.

tongue out

I went to Harrods and got a pork pie with caviar topping ... you can get twice as much making that at home.

Squeezing your own pet sturgeon around the nether reasons. And your own pig.

Not at the same time of course.


anonymous-user

54 months

Saturday 24th August 2019
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I have one of these for this evening. Best pies I have tasted for a long time

https://piesandprejudicesite.wordpress.com/2016/10...