Article by Des Houghton, courtersy of the Couriers Mail.
Iron woman Gina Rinehart is on a mission to make the best pies in Australia to honour her hero Sidney Kidman, the legendary cattle king who left home at 13 with five shillings in his pocket to become the world’s largest private landowner.
So far Mrs Rinehart has made three different flavoured pies to her own recipes, and I’m told there are three more to come. I was invited to taste her chunky beef pie, her pepper pie and her spicy pie with the gentle hum of Indian curry flavours. And they are outstanding.
The pies are made and distributed by Rinehart’s cattle company S. Kidman & Co and unlike most pies contain chunks of tender beef, not mince, explained Adam Giles, the firm’s chief executive.
“They are each made from a secret recipe Mrs Rinehart has crafted herself,’’ said Giles.
“And she conducted all the taste testing.
“And there are more to come.”
They come in the traditional pie size, and as smaller “cocktail pies” sold in boxes of 12.
Rinehart is Australia’s richest person whose fortune is reportedly in excess of $31bn. She owns more than a dozen cattle properties, so I guess she has a reliable beef supply chain should her pie business flourish.
Mrs Rinehart does not want to reveal her recipes, said Giles, a former Northern Territory chief minister from 2013 to 2016.
There are clues, however, with ingredients listed on the box including tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, onion,
celery, garlic and spice extracts listed as ginger, cloves, cardamon, capsicum, salt, oregano and nutmeg.
Giles wouldn’t speculate on the flavours of the new pies.
I’m hoping for a beef and onion gravy, a beef and bacon or a beef bourguignon pie made with mushrooms and red wine.
And I’m available for any taste testing duties, Mrs Rinehart.
19. 10. 2024
