Monday, 16 September 2013
Hunting down a Farndon Fields Huntsman Pork Pie
Huntsman
Pork Pie Review by Farndon Fields Farm Shop
It's clear your friends know you well when they invite you out for a pie meal, buy you a
pie book for your birthday or turn up at your door with a pie they’ve just bought
for you! Or maybe that’s just me... Anyways, a Farndon Fields Huntsman Pork Pie
was greatly received from housemate Jeremy on Saturday, following his scouting
mission in the fields near Hothorpe Hall, Leicestershire, for our Church’s weekend away. Bought at nearby Farndon Fields Farm Shop, I was intrigued as to what
this pie would have to offer. The thought of a chicken and pork pie excited me
(I had previously had a chicken and ham pork pie which had good potential), and
while reasonably costly at £4.25 it was a decent sized pork pie. The question
though was how would it rate?
Cutting into
the pie, it was clearly split into layers of pastry (base), pork (lower
middle), chicken (upper middle) and stuffing (top). This, of course, leads any
avid Pierateer fan to mention “you’ve forgotten to mention the pastry lid...”
until you see the photo...
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Farndon Fields Huntsman Chicken and Pork Pie |
Yep, that’s
right – it’s an onion and sage stuffing lid. Hmm... As we all know, Pierateers
demand a pie to be filling fully encased in pastry with a clearly defined side,
base and lid. Sure, the sides, base and lid were there, but lacking full
encasement in pastry was disappointing as soon as the pie had been pulled from
the packaging. Of course I avidly sliced through the pie to check, in case the
stuffing was some sort of layer above the pastry lid... but to no avail. A lack
of full encasement in pastry means a significant negative scoring unfortunately
in our search for pie perfection.

All in all, while
this wasn’t a bad effort, and the chicken and pork pie filling does definitely
work as a combination, I’d certainly want to hunt round for a stronger
candidate.
Farndon
Fields Farm Shop Huntsman Pork Pie (Chicken, pork and stuffing)
Score: 4/7
[Colour 4/7;
Consistency 3/7; Cheapness 4/7; Chewiness 5/7; Condition 5/7; Content 3/7; Capacity
4/7; Total: 4/7]
RAS
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