Eyes on the Pies

There’s a lot to raise the spirits of a pie-maker and our pie HQ makes my heart soar. We make our pies on the beautiful Bayfield estate on a ridge above the Glaven valley looking down toward the sea.

We created our state-of- the-art bakery in a light and airy high-ceilinged flint barn that used to house the farm’s bull. The buildings have won approval from CPRE for sensitive conversion. In the summer swallows swoop outside and hares and buzzards live in the field next door.

In the winter we’re kept warm by a communal wood burning system, fed from the estate’s trees. Our neighbours drop in, take in parcels, chat and taste new pie flavours. The super-exotic Berber Interiors let me use their showroom as a location for photoshoots and our cheery landlord has welcomed me to perch in his stately home kitchen for Country Living.

Sometimes I take visitors for a meeting-walk down the flower-banked lane to Glandford Ford rather than sit and talk formally, ideas flow beautifully in the sunshine and I like to think that just maybe part of the magic of our patch of North Norfolk finds its way into the pies.


Editorial by: Brays Cottage Pork Pies
Making fine artisan, award winning pork pies on the North Norfolk Coast.
Tel: 01263 860944
Email: info@perfectpie.co.uk
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