It’s all hands on deck this Christmas as Yorkshire-bakery, Thomas the Baker gears up to make 100,000 freshly baked mince pies during the Christmas week.
 
On the run up to Christmas, the North Yorkshire bakery will be working overtime and has enlisted the additional help of students and family members to meet the festive demand.
 
During December alone over 10-tones of mincemeat, made to a top secret family recipe, will be used by the family-run bakery.  This, combined with two tons of Yorkshire grown flour, three tons of pastry and 2,500 eggs locally sourced from Scarborough, form the melt in the mouth mince pies that have become a firm favourite with customers and has seen these tasty treats win over 10 independent taste tests.  The hard-work doesn’t stop there though; all 100,000 mince pie lids are placed by hand by Thomas the Baker’s skilled production team.
 
John Thomas, MD of Thomas the Baker, said: “Christmas isn’t Christmas without a warm mince pie washed down with a glass of mulled wine so we’ve got all hands on deck and the ovens at the ready to meet the demand so our customers aren’t disappointed.
 
“Our bakers are doing a fantastic job.  All of the mince pies are freshly baked in the shops each day to ensure they’re of the best quality and the lids are individually placed by hand, which is a task in itself!  But with 100,000 expected to flying off the selves during the Christmas week I guess the proof is in the pie!”
 
The Thomas family originally started the bakery in their garage, 30 years ago and have now expanded Thomas the Baker to over 35 shops across North Yorkshire and Teesside. 
 
Sourcing up to 70 per cent of its produce from Yorkshire producers, over the years Thomas the Baker sausage rolls, teacakes, pork pies, Eccles cakes and many other products have regularly won taste tests against the retail giants such as Marks&Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Asda and Morrison’s.

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