At Sloane’s
At Sloane’s, we use an old ‘John Hunt of Bolton’ pie press for our pies. It’s a cast iron, hand-crank press that we brought over from the UK and had reconditioned here. The pastry is worked less when pressed, and the end product is a pie with inch-perfect thickness. It’s a great old-fashioned piece of machinery that has not changed much in a century.
The Company ‘John Hunt’ dates back to mid-Victoria times.
The company is well known for supplying companies in the bakery and food processing industry, both large and small. It continues to be a family-owned and run business with the fourth generation actively involved.
They specialise in the manufacturing of pie, flan and tart machines ranging from the simple hand-operated “Little Champion”, to sophisticated machines with PLC control systems. To see more about them click here .
At Sloane’s we offer various pork pies including traditional pork pies, our Gala Pie, Pork & Pistachio en Croute, and our Chicken, Pork & Cranberry en Croute. All are set in aspic and wrapped in pastry.
Our team of chefs make all our pies in-house using our high-quality meats. Furthermore, they make our sauces from our home-made stocks for the best flavour and our pastry uses either real butter or fresh lard for a traditional style pie.
