Gloucester’s Royal Pie

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Published 1932

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‘A Lamprey Pie embellished with gilded ornaments was sent annually as a Christmas present from the Corporation of Gloucester to the Sovereign of the realm down to the time of Corporation reform in 1830.

The custom was revived in 1893 by the Mayor of Gloucester, Mr. John A. Matthews, at his own cost.

The pie was made by Mr. John A. Fisher, of Tudor House, Gloucester, and one was sent to Queen Victoria in her Diamond Jubilee year; it weighed 20 lb., was oval in shape, the crust garnished with truffles and crayfish on gold skewers, and aspic jelly; on the top was a gold crown and sceptre and at the base were four gold lions.

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