As you are all pie lovers and the culinary delight built our great county --I thought it would be a good idea to find out Who makes the BEST PIE IN PALATINE LANCASHIRE from THE FURNESS FELLS TO THE RIVER MERSEY ---I shall be contacting local papers ,radio stations so hope to get a few more members and let you have YOUR VOTE and will announce the WINNER on LANCASHIRE DAY NOVEMBER 27th the WINNING SHOP /BAKERY will receive a certificate from LRU and I hope this becomes an annual event ---SO CAST YOUR VOTE NOW and get your friends to join up and VOTE---I also hope one member who votes for the winner will receive a prize

Great idea John but how many members actually live in Lancashire to vote for the pies.

medymetcalfe wrote:
Great idea John but how many members actually live in Lancashire to vote for the pies.
PAUL if you actually took time to read the members features you will see a graph which says this MEMBERS WHO LIVE IN LANCASHIRE : 31.52%
If you had also read the lead thread I am contacting Local RADIO STATIONS including ABBEY FM ( John Little ) to get folks to join in and before you say owt BARROW is in PALATINE LANCASHIRE --The feature has also already been aired on 107 THE BEE in Blackburn and also will hopefully be mentioned by JOHN GILMORE on BBC RADIO LANCASHIRE TOMORROW--ALSO ON WISH FM in Wigan and THE WAVE in BLACKPOOL and local papers in LANCASHIRE --but I doubt if The EVENING MAIL will be interested does this answer your question

Cheers John but as you know i`m a little thick,for some reason i can`t get abbey radio on my radio (something to do with the church across the road) maybe i`ll have better luck with a radio station near you, hopefully i `ll be able to send you the picture of Thomas bakery in Dalton if you hav`nt got one. don`t know what the shop is like in ulverston.

medymetcalfe wrote:
Cheers John but as you know i`m a little thick,for some reason i can`t get abbey radio on my radio (something to do with the church across the road) maybe i`ll have better luck with a radio station near you, hopefully i `ll be able to send you the picture of Thomas bakery in Dalton if you hav`nt got one. don`t know what the shop is like in ulverston.
WHY DONT YOU LISTEN ONLINE THROUGH YOU PC
CLICK ON THIS LINK
http://www.abbeyfm.co.uk/index.php?page=listenonline
Spoke to JOHN LITTLE on ABBEY FM tonight who mentioned the pie vote and he said they encourage Listeners to listen online --Go on have a listen he is good and so is Bill CLARK

I`ll do that John

ok for me to vote for the pies i make or is that cheating? Thomas Bakery *Barrow, Dalton, Ulverston* all the way,




The hairy Bikers think so as well as we won a furness best pie hosted by abbey fm and there were the judges

hello all, I can't think of a more subjective thing than a taste competition, but for my two penn'orth McLey's in Bath St, Barrow, makes the best pie. I do enjoy Thomas's, and one or two others, when I'm out and about, but true to my Hindpool roots I love nothing better than popping round the corner for two of Johnny Mutton's finest. Any old school Barrovians may remember Wootton's (Where Sheng's in now on Ainslie St) butchers, they had a stall on the market too. Fantastic pies and memories, sadly missed.

If its about lancashire why not do a best butter pies? as thats our local pie

I would give my vote to Glover´s Bakery, based in Bamber Bridge. Their Butter Pie is absolutely gorgeous and is one of the ´must have´s´ when I do a flying visit to Lancashire from my home in Mallorca. See their website www.gloversbakery.co.uk for locations of their shops.
I also stumbled across some interesting pie history - the Butter Pie is really only found in the Preston, South Ribble and Chorley area. It seems that it was invented to cater for the Roman Catholic community in those areas who needed a meat free pie to consume on Fridays!

I remember butter pies well, my former sister in law lives in Preston, really tasty pie and excellent with parched peas off the flag market! Happy Days......are parched peas sold anywhere else folks?

I remember wooton`s best pies by far used to call them flying saucer pies when i was little due to the shape, brill.

I was out in Bolton yesterday, in the market, just happened to look into the glass counter to see some pies that had mushy peas in them. I dont know what else was in them and didnt have time to ask. I may get one next time and get my hubby to try it out. lol

I had two favs. they were Frys Meat and tatty. and Ashcrofts big Pork pie.They were in Barrow Island and Barrow in Furness respectively. Ashcrofts was on Forshaw street.Good luck to the winner and I bet every pie mentioned is a winner.