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GREAT YORKSHIRE CHAMPIONS CROWNEDYorkshire’s supreme champion pork pie comes from Voakes Pies, of Whixley Grange, Whixley – for the second year running. The business, run by Andrew and James Voakes, saw its first prize winning large pork (stand) pie go on to be crowned overall supreme champion pie at the 2009 Great Yorkshire Pork Pie, Sausage, Black Pudding and Beefburger Competition. It’s the fourth time Voakes Pies has netted Yorkshire’s supreme pork pie title. They also landed a memorable double this year when their small pork pie was chosen as the reserve supreme champion. Voakes narrowly failed to make it a clean sweep of trophies in the pie section when their pork, chicken and stuffing pie was runner-up in the speciality cold eating pie class. The business has been competing in the contest since its inception in 1988, a year after Voakes first started making pies, using pork from pigs reared on its own farm. The company supplies its products to butchers and farm shops across a wide area.
The supreme champion sausage title fell to the first prize thick pork sausage from H Hofmann & Sons Butchers, who have a total of five butchers and bakers’ shops in Wakefield town centre and Normanton. The business has also been entering the Great Yorkshire competition since its inception and won the supreme champion sausage title in 2005, following up in 2006 when becoming Yorkshire’s supreme champion pork pie maker. Hofmanns, which sources all its pork from Yorkshire pigs, was runner-up in three other classes at this year’s renewal – thin pork sausage and speciality sausage (pork and leek), and large pork (stand) pie.
Champion black pudding maker was H Weatherhead & Sons Butchers, of High Street, Pateley Bridge. Run by Andrew Weatherhead, the business won the Great Yorkshire small pork pie championship in 2005. Weatherheads sources the majority of its pork from local farmer Will Hitchen, of Grantley, who rears rare breed Saddleback pigs, crossed with the Large White. The beefburger title was awarded to J B Wilkinson & Sons, with butchers shops in Otley, Rawdon, Yeadon, Bramhope, Ilkley, Wetherby and Knaresborough. The winning product, sold in all seven shops, is a traditional beefburger known as the Hoisin Burger, as it contains a Chinese season mix, supplied, coincidentally, by class sponsor, butchers’ food ingredients and equipment supplier WR Wright & Sons, of Liverpool. Wilkinsons sources all its beef through Wharfedale Farmers Auction Mart in Otley.
A competition debutant, Parkin Butchers, which has shops in Chapel Street, Epworth, Doncaster, and Market Place, Crowle, won the speciality sausage class with its tomato and basil sausage. The business has been run for the past 15 years by husband and wife David and Diane Parkin and all pork used in their sausages is reared locally in Crowle. David and his right-hand man David Smith were responsible for making the victorious speciality sausage. Woods Butchers, of High Street, Carcroft, Doncaster, won the speciality pie class for the second year running with their pork and leek cold eating pie. Woods, who also finished third in the black pudding class, are no strangers to success in the competition. They were supreme pork pie champions in 2005, black pudding champions in 2006 and reserve supreme pie champions in 2007. Some 300 entries from butchers right across the county were received for the milestone 21st annual contest, organised by The Confederation of Yorkshire Butchers Councils and held in Bradford, on Sunday, 18 October. It is the county’s biggest and best known meat trade competition. Acting as a celebrity judge was Peter Armitage, who plays Bill Webster in Coronation Street. Joining sponsors and product donators in presenting the trophies were Confederation of Yorkshire Butchers Councils president Ian Hopkins, whose shop is in Birkenshaw, Bradford, and Mike Ward, president of the National Federation of Meat & Food Traders, who has a butchers shop in Keighley and has been closely involved with the Great Yorkshire competition for many years. At the Yorkshire president’s dinner on the eve of the competition, it was also announced that competition stalwart Ted Jones had been awarded life honorary vice-presidency of the Confederation in recognition of his services over the years. The Ted Jones Supreme Pie Trophy was this year presented for the second time.
2009 competition resultsCHAMPIONSHIP CLASSES SUPREME SAUSAGE CHAMPION, awarded the ACP Shield and Lucas Ingredients products – H Hofmann & Sons Butchers, Wakefield. RESERVE SUPREME CHAMPION SAUSAGE, awarded the Devro Quaich – Paul Flintoft Butchers, Kippax Leeds. PIE CLASSES SAUSAGE CLASSES BLACK PUDDING BEEFBURGER |
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The 2009 reserve supreme champion sausage, the first prize thin pork sausage, was presented
to Paul Flintoft Butchers, of High
Street, Kippax, Leeds. Paul has also tasted success in the competition previously, winning the thick pork sausage class in both 2006
and 2008. 
