Victoria Park Pie Company - Minced Beef Pie

After the Lamb and mint pie last week it’s back to basics with a minced beef pie from the Victoria Park Pie Company. I did ask the wife to buy a steak pie but hey, in one ear and out of the other but she remember to buy a cold pie saving a few pence.

A warm-up in the oven for around 25 minutes on a medium setting then onto a plate to cool off a bit. No foil tray, which was a godsend a throw back to when they were part of the Clarks Pie family before they moved in a different direction. It looked very much like the fore mentioned pie, minus the trademark "CLARPIE" stamped into the pastry at the bottom of the pie we now a piece of paper on the top (see picture). Do you eat it? I don’t, I pick it off.

Minced beef pies can suffer from a bad reputation in the pie world as a pie made from inferior meats, a lesser pie as a result, possibly even called the poor man’s pie. This pie was well above your normal minced beef pie helped by the firm pastry and the meat was lovely and tender, with a flavoursome gravy. The pie was full from top to bottom with filling a mix of minced meat, potato, and onion and was very tasty. It was a pleaser to eat.

I would rate a mincemeat pie as higher as their steak pie, and I rate is higher than some steak pies I recently eaten.

Rate this Pie 9.90