https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/over-200-jobs-to-be-lost-as-vale-of-mowbray-pork-pies-closes-after-energy-price-rises-3861325
It was Frankie Howard who once joked that he could join the gentry as Sir Melton Mowbray, and my Mum laughed at this forever!
I'm sorry to learn that yet another delicacy of British repute will not be around much longer! There again, we loved Lymeswold, which was a cheese built on a desire to create a distunctive comestible for everyone, and that never really took off...
I guess that the style of Melton Mowbray pies will continue with another producer, and I've been instructed to visit our local farm shop, where I seem to remember that they sell a local variety, probably for twice the price, but that's life!
I expect you can still buy pies made in Melton Mowbray itself - at least I hope so. Funnily enough I quite fancy one now - that's the trouble with writing anything about tasty food.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, AK!
ReplyDeleteIn fact, the day before we found that the original bakery was closing, Senora O'B announced that she was feeling somewhat partial to one as well!
I've just bought three in Waitrose...
Death of our culture, Scrobs.
ReplyDeleteIf only I could make Melton Mowbray type pork pies using coal fired ovens....wait!
ReplyDeleteIt really is, James!
ReplyDeleteSenora O'Blene's pork pie addiction will become a real issue if the 'origin' of the delicacy is withdrawn!
I've just made a Cornish Pasty, to a recipe from a Sussex book, and as we live in Kent, it's now a protected recipe, because the Third Law of Scrobs is that all comestibles made here are the bailliewick of Scrobs!
I have asked her if we can make a Gala Pie, which has chicken and ham inside, but that got a firm NOOOOO!
That's a great idea, Tammly!
ReplyDeleteYou could also get up the noses of the climate change flakes, the vegans and the Greens at the same time, a pastime which I am all in favour of!
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