IN the 12 years since it was erected, The Great British Bake Off tent has seen more than its fair share of drama, yet few of the challenges have flustered the contestants like game pie. Set as a task during 2015’s ‘Victorian week’, the saviour of shoot lunches unleashed chaos: the then 19-year-old Flora Shedden, a Scot who now runs a bakery in the Highlands, was unfazed by pheasant, but burned her pie’s crust and burst into tears, and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall-wannabe Ian Cumming set the internet alight when he professed his love for cooking with dead hares he found on the road (‘they’ve been bumped, not pancaked,’ he clarified).
A great game pie remains a highlight of a day in the field, especially when the weather is on the milder side
It isn’t only television-show contestants who blanch at the thought of making a game pie from scratch—most of us probably would and quite reasonably. Between fashioning your
