Slice of history

HUNGRY visitors to a traditional Saddleworth country fair tasted the flavour of Yorkshire thanks to Andrea Roebuck who designed a heavyweight pie which sold like hot cakes at the Yorkshire Day celebrations.

Ingredients for the belt-busting pie included pieces of Yorkshire pudding, along with beef, onions, potatoes, peas and carrots.

Andrea said with pride: “When I was born in Greenfield — it was in Yorkshire. My pie definitely captured the true flavour of the county.

Yorkshire Day began in the 1970s following local government reorganisation and has grown in popularity since.

In 1759, at the Battle of Minden in Germany, Yorkshire regiments selected white roses, picked from bushes near the battlefield, as a tribute to fallen colleagues. It remains the symbol of Yorkshire today.