Alec’s 99 and Knows a Thing or Two About Pork Pies   
 
     
 
 
 
   
 
     
 
 

 

25th ANNUAL CHARITY PORK PIE COMPETITION RESULTS 2017

 

Artisan Class

 

1st Honley Village  Butchers – pork, chorizo, goats cheese & sweet chilli sauce 
2nd Keith Dyson – full English breakfast
3rd Honley Village Butchers – pork, chicken & stuffing
4th J. Thomas of Helmsley 
5th E. Middlemiss – pork, stuffing & Yorkshire chutney

 

Traditional Class

                  

1st Hoffman’s of Wakefield 
2nd Wilson’s of Crossgates, Leeds 
3rd Broster’s of Lindley, Huddersfield.
4th Honley Village Butchers, Huddersfield.

 

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Pie Club History

Ninety nine year old Alec Fozard has been making pork pies since he was 13.

So the award winning pork butcher decided to show Calderdale's very own Pork Pie Appreciatlon Society how its done.

Mr Fozard, who was European black pudding champIon in the 60s, was invited by the group to be a guest judge at the 15th Annual Charity Master Pork Pie Maker Competition In March.
While sampling the competitors offerings at the Old Bridge Inn, Ripponden, the pensioners of Batley, promised to make the members one of his own pies.

And keeping to his word Mr Fozard, who turns 100 in December, produced a succulent homemade treat just last week, which the panel swiftly dubbed one of the best they had ever tasted.

Mr Fozard, who has three children, eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren, entered the butchery trade at 13, working in Cleckheatdn and Bradford.

“My father was a publican and there was a pork butcher who would call in every Sunday night. He was looking for an apprentice and I never looked back.”

In 1935 MrFozard opened his own store in Staincliffe, near Dewsbury, where he worked for 37 years never taking a full week’s holiday.

The hard work paid off when his black pudding was named the best in Europe in 1969. “It was vets’ exciting. I was a member of the Dewsbury and District Butchers’ Association and the news that I had won came in on the night of the annual dinner dance. As we heard, the band struck up with Congratulations.”

Mr Fozard said: “The best pork pie needs good ingredients, plenty of experience and some­one who Is interested In what they are doing,” he said.

He still makes pies twice a year and bakes 20 Christmas cakes every year for friends and family. Kevin Booth and Richard Neville, from the society, described Mr Fozard’s pie as “delicious”.

Mr Neville said: “It was one of the best pies we have ever eaten. What is particularly impressive as it was made In Mr Fozard’s kitchen which does not have all the tools of a butcher’s shop.”

 

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