Enter-pies-ing Students
Winners Rhiannon Willson and Charlene Singh with The Topping
Pie Company's Lynda Povey
Catering students Rhiannon Willson and
Charlene Singh will show off their new pie filling to royalty after
winning a competition.
The duo will be special guests as HRH Princess
Royal visits The Topping Pie Company on Monday, December 8, making
their Chicken with Garam Masala pie at the Chappell Drive site.
Rhiannon and Charlene came out on top as the
company challenged Doncaster College hospitality and catering
students to come up with a new pie filling as part of National
Enterprise Week (November 17-23).
Rhiannon said: “The idea to do the filling
came quite quickly. We were in the supermarket looking at herbs and
spices and thought about this - within half an hour or so we had
come up with the recipe.”
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Judges taste the pies
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Charlene added: “I can’t believe we won the
competition, there were a lot of good pie fillings and they all
looked lovely.”
The runner-up pie filling was James
Lindley-Brown and Gary Maxfield’s Sunday Dinner pie.
Other fillings included Thyme, Beef and Red
Wine; Creamy Thai and Spanish Empanada.
Lynda Povey, general manager at The Topping
Pie Company, said: “We were delighted to join forces with our local
further education college in our enterprising pie challenge. There
are a lot of very talented young catering students at the College
and the challenge unleashed some enterprising and innovative
ideas.”
College Hospitality and Catering Assistant
Academy Director Jane Fishwick said: “The collaboration with The
Topping Pie Company has really encouraged enterprising and creative
qualities in our students, as well as enhancing learning and
motivating them to create the perfect pie. All our students were
incredibly enthusiastic about the challenge and it was a difficult
job to select the final winner.”
The winning pie will be on the Christmas menu at The Hub's
Waterfront Training Restaurant. Limited places are available. Phone
01302 553614 for more information.
Doncaster College runs a host of hospitality
and catering courses from its Hub base. Further details are
available by calling 0800 358 7575 or visiting http://www.don.ac.uk/waterfront
Updated 25/11/08