CHILLI BEEF PATTIE

The label reads:
"Island Delight
Chilli Beef Jamaican Crust Pattie.
Flaky pastry.
Tender minced beef simmered with nine herbs & spices and baked in a light golden flaky crust for the authentic taste of Jamaica's famous street food."

Note the terminology :
'Light golden, crusty, flaky pastry
Nine herbs and spices. Tender minced beef simmered.'

Wouldn't it be wonderful if "all" pattie makers attempted to achieve these criteria! ?!!

Pastry - light, flaky, melts in the mouth.- 4.5
Filling - looks like mince meat. Moist
Flavour - under tones of curry flavour. Tasty even if a bit mild. - 3.5
Shape - traditional half circle. Sealed - 4

Total 12

STEW PEAS PATTY

Juici Patties
Stew Peas Patty - 235g

Supplied by Juci Patties and can be purchased from Sainsbury's Groceries.
Item code: 7832738

Description
Mixed beans and vegetables in a spicy sauce, baked in a flaky pastry.
Vegetarian Society approved

No peas! Just a traditional blend of three beans, sweetcorn and coconut milk with authentic Jamaican spices in a golden flaky crust.

Serious Jamaican Food!
Jamaica's favourite patty brand is now being produced in the UK using Juici's famous recipes under the supervision of Juici's master baker.
Jukie Chin was 16 when he started making patties in his mother's kitchen to sell in the family grocery store. 25 years later, with over 60 restaurants Juice is Jamaica's best selling pattie.

Above is purely for your information only. Comment on pastry, shape, filling & flavour has been reserved for another time.

PANDA BERRY

Panda berry
2 Nether Street
North Finchley
N12 0EL.
Restaurant/Takeaway/Caterers
Info@pandaberry.co.uk
02034415089
07587822041

CLICK HERE to find out more

I lived in Finchley for a short while and considered this restaurant as my oasis in the middle of a world that I could not comprehend. Every meal is a reminder of home. The staff are friendly and the  atmosphere is bohemian in style, refreshing and down to earth.

As this is a pattie blog that is all that can really be commented on. At the risk of repeating myself, we do not eat patties for the pastry alone. Patties from Panda Berry have a lot of pastry, thick, large amounts of pastry. While the filling could be conceived as being spread with a knife thinly inside.  Sadly the patties do not match the standard of the food served at Panda Berry.

Pastry - good colour and texture, but so thick!?!! The thickness is why it only scored - 3
Shape - traditional half circle, but the pastry was so thick that it puffed up and looked more like a apple-turnover... - 3
Flavour - had flavour but not enough to know it was meant to have Caribbean spices.
Filling - The thinnest layer I have experienced since I started writing The World Of Patties Blog.  - 2

Total score 8

TRADITIONAL CUISINE - JUST SAYING

This week I sent out a request for you to nominate pattie shops and or suppliers.
I got a response I did not expect. Generally a lot of people have stopped eating patties. Plus they did not hold back on explaining why. The fillings of the patties they have tried have been questionable.
I am an advocate of the original beef or vegetable pattie. All other fillings do not count in my book. These things wrapped in pastry and called patties should be renamed and not come under the same category as the pattie. It is an insult to traditional Caribbean cuisine.
It is understandable that bakers are trying to be inclusive for all tastes and preferences. It's admirable and disappointing at the same time. If you want to create a different taste why not create a different name to?
We are offered saltfish, saltfish & ackee,  lamb, chicken, beef & cheese and cheese. These fillings are not traditional pattie fillings. Original ideas but why call them patties - is it because it's in a pastry case? Sausage roll, sambusa, stake bake, cornish pasties, chebureki and stake and kidney pies are all in pastry cases and have there own names. If you are going to create; be original with the name as well.
It is sad that other cultures trying a 'pattie' think saltfish & ackee is a traditional snack in a pastry case!
The hope is more effort can be put into getting the traditional pattie pastry, filling & flavour right rather than deviating into other fillings. The truth is if you got the original 'pattie' right there would be no need for these other filling. Just saying.

RUDIE'S

Rudie's

50 Stoke Newington Road

London N16 7XB

www.rudieslondon.com

info@rudieslondon.com

Tel. No. 020 7249 9930

Pastry - Not the traditional short crust pastry but the texture is just right. Colour on this occasion was a bit deep, but it did not take away from the excellent flavour - 4

Shape - As patties should be a half circle - 5

Filling - Looks like meat, great healthy looking colour and moist plus full of Caribbean flavour!

Flavour - Real flavour of Jamaica. Excellent! ! - 5+

The patties taste better than they look - Serious ting!! 

Freshly baked home made patties. Thin pastry, filled with 'real' seasoned meat. Caribbean spiced!! 😀

There are some pattie makers could take a lesson from Rudie's - serious ting!!

This is a review full of explanation marks, I can't help it the whole Rudie's experience is like that - Great!! 

Total score 14

LEADING IN THE PATTIE REVIEWS JAN-MAR 2017

The World of Patties Blog  proudly  announces the top three pattie shops this quarter January-March 2017 are:

BROWN EAGLE – WOOD GREEN

NICE – BIRMINGHAM

SUGAR DUMPLIN – ENFIELD

1.      BROWN EAGLE – Wood green High Street, N22 Nr. bus station - 14

2.      NICE - Frozen food unit at the Bull Ring Indoor Market, Birmingham - 14

3.      SUGAR DUMPLIN - can be found at the back right hand side of Enfield Market in a wooden shack -11.5

4.      THE TASTE BUD - 21 Silver Street,  Enfield Town EN1 3EF. thetastebud@yahoo.co.uk  - 11.5

5.      CAFE ALLEYNES - 2 Ladysmith Road, Enfield, EN1 3AA. Email: bookings@cafealleynes.com  - 11

6.      SAVANNAH CARIBBEAN - 14 Clapham High Street, SW4 7UT - 11

7.      UPTOWN CUISINE - 20A West Green Road, Tottenham  - 9.5

8.      AUNTIES BAKERY - 409 Green Street, Plaistow E15 -  6

Please note these scores are not set in stone. Chiefs and bakers change and the quality of the product may change with them. We are happy to update our review of any patties as time goes on.

WELL DONE TO THIS QUARTERS TOP THREE!

CRUSTEE PATTY

Crustee
2 North Square, Edmonton Green.  N9 0HW.

Edmonton Green's newest place to get your pattie.

based in Edmonton market near to Wilko's. The shop looks like it has great potential. The genuine smiles from the staff was so welcoming it made me want to stay. They actually have a pattie meal menu! For example you can get a pattie, can drink and slice of cake for £2.99.

The patties look like a meal in themselves, which I found out very quickly - the pastry is so thick and so much of it that to get the fullest experience I ate from the middle section to get some balance between the filling and the amount of pastry. The pastry could have made three patties. The pastry melted in my mouth and it flaked in a way that you just have to lick your lips. Unfortunately we do not enjoy patties for the pastry alone.

Pastry - great colour and texture, but so thick!?!! The thickness is why it only scored - 3

Shape - square-ish - why?  Let's get back to the traditional half circle - 3

Flavour - None

Filling - Looked like meat, plus moist and a good portion, but no spicy flavour. - 3

Total score 9

AUNTIES BAKERY

AUNTIES BAKERY

409 Green Street, 

Plaistow 

E15

Nr Upton Park

I could not be objective about this pattie, because when I bit into it I found  the pastry was raw.

So I got someone else to review it. This is the feedback I was given:
Good old pattie shape, crust was firm, soft to bite in to; even though the pastry had a  flakey 'appearance'. 

Fully filled with meat 🍖not much flavour at all, black pepper warmth 🤔

From this feedback the scoring is:
Pastry - It looked good, but the underside was spongy as if it was not baked right through. The score is for the look rather than the texture or taste - 2

Shape - The best thing about this pattie - 3

Filling - grey in colour. Lots of it!

Flavour - If you sprinkled white soft bread with black pepper they would have a similar taste to this pattie - 1

Total Score = 6

CARRIBEAN SPICE

Carribean Spice

West Green Road.

Beef Pattie

Pastry - Very thick - 3

Shape - bigger than any pattie we have reviewed to date, but maintained the half circle and no filling bursting out - 4

Filling - it actually looked like mince meat. Right consistency and moist. 

Flavour - Didn't taste of anything in particular. Not  a hint of spice or pepper. A sausage roll has more flavour - 1

Total score = 8

INTRODUCTION TO PATTIE BLOG

This blog has been created to look at the Caribbean Pattie. We intend to visit shops that offer this Caribbean snack and grade the quality of the pattie as objectively as possible by scoring them on:
1. Pastry; quality, i.e. texture - softness, flakiness and  flavour.
2. Shape; Traditional pattie shape.
3. Meat; spicy, juicy, Caribbean flavour.

TOP SCORE 15