Recognition

Pie Love You! These comforting little fellas will definitely have you feeling the love this V-Day. Handmade in Herefordshire, and chock- a-block with delicious meaty fillings, these cold pies are tasty, satisfying and made from ingredients reared just down the road. (We fell especially hard for The Celebrity, featuring local pork, perry and pear.) Available from the Legges of Bromyard shop, and online.

Feed the Family- This will ensure your freezer is nice and full, with bacon, thin pork sausages, a gammon joint, beef burgers, a cooked chicken and piri piri pork steaks. There’s even a pork and leek pie for when you can’t be bothered to cook and eggs to complete a morning fry-up.

I was taken to Legges, a butcher in Bromyard. This is the antithesis of everything you are told about rural shops. Big and bustling, with things that yelled “Eat me”, and almost everything collected within five miles of the shop. Its pie was made with short hot-water crust, perhaps not quite as much jelly as you’d like, but the meaty filling has a wonderful piggy flavour. the straight-up spicing of the white pepper gave it that characteristic palely hot afterburn. This was a round-voweled fistful of pie that knew its Ps from its Qs