Ingfield Farm Shop in Southowram, near Halifax, was crowned supreme champion after virtually sweeping the board in the sixth annual Great Northern Pork Pie Competition, which ran alongside the 2014 Christmas primestock shows at Skipton Auction Mart.
The business, run by the Bamford farming family at their Law Farm in Law Lane, clinched the top accolade with its first prize speciality eating pie – a pork, cheese and chutney creation that is a regular best seller at the farm shop.
Also chosen as the best pork pie from a Yorkshire entrant, the title winner is hand crafted in Ingfield Farm Shop’s in-house bakery by master pie maker Barry Kaye – he’s been making pies and other savouries since he was a teenager.
It came in for high praise from the competition judges, pork pie aficionados one and all, among them Janet Green and Rob Ogden, of Farmhouse Fare in Skipton, supreme champions the previous four years.
This year, they were handed the honour of having the final say on who should succeed them in recognition of their unprecedented run of success. “Perfect pastry and a superb combination of flavours right through,” was the unanimous feedback of the adjudicators, led by Great Yorkshire Pork Pie Competition stalwart, former Keighley butcher Mike Ward.
Ingfield Farm Shop received the champion’s trophy from Robin Moule, of Skipton-based PR company Moule Media, and David Hempel, a director of competition sponsors, Keighley spice merchants TW Laycock & Sons.
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