A FEARNHEAD baker is providing the perfect hangover cure in time for the pubs reopening – by creating a full English breakfast inside a pie. Shane Neild, from To Pie For, calls his creation a northerner s dream come true with sausage, bacon, egg, black pudding, mushrooms, beans, tomato, cheese and even a squirt of brown sauce inside the crust. The former Padgate High School student only sells the drinkers’ delicacy on a Saturday morning from his award-winning shop in Station Road North, which includes 27 flavours of pies on its beefed-up menu. To Pie For has launched a full English pie. Pictures: SWNS
Higgidy goes pie for pie
Higgidy has pledged to donate over 100,000 pies to FareShare via its ‘pie for a pie’ on-pack initiative.
The company will donate a meal to the charity for every Higgidy pie purchased during British Pie Week, with special stickered packs on sale in supermarkets.
As part of its #PieceOfThePie social media promotion of the initiative, Higgidy is offering 500 pie lovers the chance to win a freebie and gift one to a friend, with the company donating £1 to FareShare for every pie claimed.
“Higgidy’s donation of 100,000 pies throughout Pie Week will help to feed the most vulnerable in our society, while also help to bring people together. That’s what food does, it brings people together,” said Lindsay Boswell, CEO at FareShare.
By Amy North2021-03-03T13:11:00+00:00
Pies are a beloved British classic. So much so that there’s an entire week dedicated to the pastry-clad delights in the form of British Pie Week, which runs from 1-7 March.
To celebrate, we caught up with some of the UK’s biggest pie players to find out how 2020 played out for them.
In part one of two, they discuss bestsellers and NPD as well as the challenges and opportunities facing the pie market as a result of the pandemic. Here’s what they had to say:
What is your bestselling pie?
Helen Bowyer [HB], commercial director, Wrights Food Group: Our iconic meat and potato pie continues to be our most popular shortcrust pastry pie across retail and foodservice customers but in 2020 our puff pastry chicken & mushroom pie was the year’s best seller, closely followed by our puff pastry steak and kidney pies.
Huge Leicestershire event the British Pie Awards 2021 postponed due to coronavirus
The event usually takes place in Melton during British Pie Week
11:20, 25 JAN 2021
Updated
The British Pie Awards 2021 has been postponed (Image: Becky Jones)
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A world-renowned fine foods showcase which takes place in Leicestershire every year has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.