When my husband does the supermarket shop on his own, two things generally result: it costs more than when I do it, but we get nicer food. On his last trip, however, he came back without his habitual weekend pork pie treat, declaring that all those on the shelves were - well, I can't tell you what he said, but it wasn't very complimentary.
What he
did bring home, though, was the wherewithal to make his own. All those years in the bakery trade come in useful in such crisis times. I was banished from the kitchen, while he put on his pinny and wielded his rolling-pin.
Ninety minutes later he revealed a pie of such beauty and majesty that it brought a tear to my eye! It wasn't one of those picnic-size morsels; no, this was a full-on 2lb example, with a hand-crimped crust decorated with pastry leaves.
'Leave it to cool,' I said, 'then I'll take a picture of it for my blog.'
Unfortunately I got distracted and by the time I went back with my camera the teenage hordes had been at. Even so, I think you can see from this picture that it really was a prince of pies. I have decided he can stay for at least another week.
A pie among pies! I hope you enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteIt was delish! Thanks for stopping by, Paula.
ReplyDeleteAh yes.... Hand raised block pork pies. Marvelous. Then the (to me) horrible job of adding the jelly...
ReplyDeleteSaturday jobs I have had and loathed.
Some might say the jelly is the best bit. Worst Saturday job I ever had? Serving petrol - in the days when you actually had to go outside and put the fuel in the car for the customer. Some days it was so cold it made my nose bleed.
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