Kath’s pies go down a treat at British Pie Awards
Nice Pie was started from humble beginnings by Phil and Kath Walmsley seven years ago.
And, boosted by an appearance on a Jamie Oliver TV show, it has expanded rapidly.
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Hide AdKath is already a multiple-award winner and her pies impressed the judges again at this year’s pie awards, which were judged at the town’s St Mary’s Church.
Nice Pie won the Fish Pie class and the Chicken With Other Meat Pie category, with their Chicken and Ham Hock Pie.
Kath attended the presentation dinner on Friday to pick up the trophies.
The business was also highly commended in the Beef and Any Flavour Combination Pie class with its Melton Mowbray Steak Pie.
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Hide AdNice Pie was awarded four gold awards, two silvers and two bronzes in a competition which attracted a whopping entry of 848 pies from 160 professional pie bakers, butchers and chefs from around the country.
Phil told the Melton Times: “Kath did extremely well again against some tough opposition.
“The Melton Mowbray Steak Pie is our best seller so it was great to get recognised for that one.
“That came right out of the blue so we are really pleased with that.
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Hide Ad“Kath decided to enter our best selling pies this year and the judges certainly seemed to like them.
“Winning national awards like these are great for business because it keeps our name up there with the best piemakers in the country.”
Melton’s historic Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe took away two silver awards in the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie and the Pork Pie classes.
And there was a bronze award for Asfordby Hill-based Brockleby’s for its Summer Isles Salmon Pie in the Fish Pie class.
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Hide AdAlso celebrating were Feast and the Furious, a small smokery based in Melton, which sells its products at the town’s farmers’ market every Tuesday and at food events locally and around the country.
The business took a silver award in the Beef and Cheese Pie category with its Smoked Beef and Smoked Stilton Cheese Pie.
The company’s Jon Oakes told the Melton Times: “This is the first time we have entered the awards and it was the only pie we entered.
“So we are absolutely thrilled to win any kind of award, especially when it showcases the different products and ingredients we currently sell in our business.”