A FEARNHEAD baker is providing 'the perfect hangover cure' in time for the pubs reopening – by creating a full English breakfast inside a pie.
Shane Neild, from To Pie For, calls his creation a 'northerner's dream come true' with sausage, bacon, egg, black pudding, mushrooms, beans, tomato, cheese and even a squirt of brown sauce inside the crust.
The former Padgate High School student only sells the drinkers’ delicacy on a Saturday morning from his award-winning shop in Station Road North, which includes 27 flavours of pies on its beefed-up menu.
To Pie For has launched a full English pie. Pictures: SWNS
But he regularly sells more than 50 of them each week to hungry punters – many of whom are looking for something delicious to tuck into after a boozy Friday night.
Shane, 44, said: “It’s the best hangover cure around here, that’s for sure.
“We do a pie of the week every week so I’m always thinking up a new pie.
To Pie For has launched a full English pie. Pictures: SWNS
“I normally think them up when I’ve had a few drinks. I've always said that a full English was always a good hangover cure.
“I like a full English and I like a pie, so I thought I’d put them together. We started doing it on a Saturday morning for when people have been to the pub on a Friday and it went down a treat.
“People love them, they were asking how we can fit all that in one pie. It’s just a normal size, one-person pie, people are amazed we can get it all in."
To Pie For has launched a full English pie. Pictures: SWNS
Shane, who is a regular fixture at the Warrington Makers Market in Palmyra Square, cooks the ingredients first before filling the pastry and baking it in the oven.
He said every bite of the pie – around nine inches in diameter and 1.5inches deep - provides a mouthful of every ingredient.
While he personally does not like beans, he says they are essential to the success of the pie. And he is thinking of expanding to sell them on a Friday.
To Pie For has launched a full English pie. Pictures: SWNS
Shane added: “You need the beans for the texture. I don’t like beans myself but I have tried a few test ones without the beans and it just doesn’t work without them.
“We cook around 50 or 60 of them each week and we always sell out early doors.
“It’s a northerner's dream come true, a pie and a full English in one.
To Pie For has launched a full English pie. Pictures: SWNS
“I’m thinking about doing them on a Friday too, I think they could be a big hit with the builders on a Friday morning who fancy a fry up.”
Qualified chef Shane, who runs the shop with his partner Lindsay, has won six certificates from the British Pie Awards for his creations.
Also on his menu alongside traditional pies like meat and potato and steak and kidney are specials such as pork, black pudding and pear and tandoori chicken with mango chutney.
To Pie For has launched a full English pie. Pictures: SWNS
The couple started out baking their pies to be sold at markets two years ago before opening the shop near their home two weeks before the first lockdown.
Despite the challenges of the pandemic, Shane's dream of opening his own shop was a success from the start with around 400 pies sold a day.
To Pie For has launched a full English pie. Pictures: SWNS
