Showing posts with label Uppercrust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uppercrust. Show all posts

Saturday, 26 January 2013

Will they get an Uppercrust on their opponents?

It won’t come as any surprise that the pie market is fast becoming one of the most highly competitive food markets out there. Specialist pie shops and shops starting to sell pies as part of their menu are appearing all over the place! Which is brilliant, don’t get me wrong, but it can make finding the best pie an ever growing challenge. What we need is a company out there who can get the uppercrust on their pastry making com-pie-titors and give us a name we can trust. And surely one of the best at doing that is Uppercrust themselves! Intriguingly rebranded from McDougalls, Uppercrust certainly appear to be appealing to the high end pie market. I get offered a pie invite by @xethian to try out the Uppercrust Chicken & Asparagus pie. It’s meant to be a “family sized” pie, though basically that means it serves two fully grown manly pie eaters. Here goes...


Pie Uppercrust Chicken and Asparagus
What a serving suggestion!
The pastry lid certainly didn’t cook golden brown as evenly as it had in the “serving suggestion” on the box – which, while we’re on the topic of “serving suggestions” was one of the best I’d seen in literally being the pie...on a plate! Classic! Glad I now know not to eat my next pie out of a dog bowl...
Despite the uneven crisping of the lid pastry, it was still very flaky and crisp, which is exactly how it should be. The pastry didn’t fall apart while serving, as it had done in previous pies. The chicken and asparagus oozed out of the pastry and was in a delicious white sauce. The capacity had well and truly been reached on this pie, with the chicken pieces lovely and tender and the sauce and asparagus complementing the meat perfectly. I’d certainly recommend getting involved! Worth it’s crust and then some.

Uppercrust Chicken & Asparagus
Score: 6.01/7

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