Like many families back then, roasts were a regular fixture on the calendar as were home cooked family meals. Allums Butchers owner Jonathan Allum was 16 when he first started serving Jane on his family’s market stall. Despite the closure of the market and relocating 100m down the road to Brook Street, loyal customers continued to buy their meat including Jane and her family.
Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Hucknall Dispatch, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Jane, who lived with her late mum Jean until she was 45, recently said in the press: “I’ll tell you why I still live in Wakefield: Allum’s pork pies. They are absolutely brilliant.
“It is a neighbourhood, it’s a community, it's Wakefield and it’s my safe place and my family are all there and all my friends are there so why wouldn’t I live in Wakefield?” The former Cruising with Jane McDonald star has said previously she wouldn’t go on Celebrity Big Brother because she couldn’t give up her weekly pork pie on a Sunday night. Jonathan said: “She used to come in every week before her career took off. “Now obviously she travels a lot but she often comes in for special occasions, parties and at Christmas time.
” Jonathan said he’s “only been making pork pies for 25 years.” When he was first developing his recipe he tried lots of pork pies to get the best recipe. “It’s just lard, flour, salt and boiling water,” he sai.
