BROMSGROVE’S Butcher’s Block will be celebrating British Pie Week by showcasing a selection of its delicious pies.
Lilith, who runs the popular butcher’s shop on the High Street with her wife Michelle, has also entered her pies into the British Pies Award where more than 800 pie-makers will battle it out for the ‘Pie of Pies’ or ‘Supreme Champion’ titles,
Lilith’s pies have become legendary locally in gluten free and coeliac circles. Her main entry into the competition this year is her gluten-free rabbit pie.
She said: “One of my oldest memories of my dad was him sitting me down as he made me a rabbit pie all for myself.
“Not only is it the filling I love the taste of but it’s also a moment in life that I truly hold dear.”
Lilith makes all the pies, savouries and ready meals sold at the popular high street shop and she is well-known for her delicious and varied assortment of pies.
All pies are priced £3.50 and made on site with her single-handedly making up to 150 pies per week .
She is hoping to put the shop – and Bromsgrove – on the Great British pie map when hers go up against the other best-selected across the country.
British Pie Week
British Pie Week begins on Monday and runs until the following one (March 3 to 10), celebrating Britian’s most important contribution to world food heritage, the pie.
The UK eats more than £1billion of them every year from hot and cold, to sweet and savoury and recently gluten free, vegan and fusion varieties.
Pies have been a concept since the Middle Ages when they were called ‘coffyns’.
At that time, the poor ate pies made from the entrails of venison, called ‘umbles’ hence the expression ‘To Eat Umble Pie’.
