PIES AS BIG AS HOUSES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144198, 15 September 1913, Page 4

PIES AS BIG AS HOUSES.

An enormous meat-pie, weighing two hundred pounds, provided tho chief dish for a banquet at Gorloston recently. It-was made in three sections, and the outer crust was three inches thick.

It created a big sensation locally, yet- it would have made but a poor show by tho side of some of tho mon-

tier pics for winch, Denby Dale, near Halifax, has been long famous. Those arc baked only upon very special occasions, the very biggest of them being prepared in 188?, in honour of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee. It weighed, when cooked, no less than 1 ton 5 ewt., and the ingredients comprised 850 lb. beef, 100 lb. each of mutton and veal, 140 lb. lamb, 250 lb. loan pork, and enough fowls, geese, pigeons, rabbits, hares, etc., to stock a poulterer’s shop. To mako tho crust 60 st. of flour woro used, mixed with 100 lb. of lard and 00 lb. of butter.

Another similar monster was prepared in 1846 to celebrate the repeal of tho corn laws. Yet another was baked in 1188, in commemoration of King Georgo - lll.’s recovery from illness; while a fourth was prepared and oaten in 1815, in honour of Wellington’s victory over Napoleon on tho field of Waterloo.