Melton Mowbray Pork Pie

  • As Noted In: 1001 Foods You Must Taste Before You Die, Quintessence Editions
  • Source: Hog, Pork, Swine

Originally baked in a clay pot covered with a rough pastry, the Melton Mowbray pork pie is chopped, seasoned fresh pork and pork jelly wrapped in a hand-formed crust. In the late 1700s Melton Mowbray becoming the centre of foxhunting in England and the location of the three famous hunts, Belvior, Cottesmore and Quorn. By the 1780s, the local pastry was made popular by hunters who saw their grooms and servants enjoying the hand pie. - AsNotedIn





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Y/M/D Person Association Description Place Locale Event
1851/00/00 Dickinson and Morris have been baking pork pies in Melton Mowbray since 1851. Ye Pork Pie Shoppe Melton Mowbray

Eats Time Dinner
Eats Time Lunch

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Particulars for :
Food Attribute Bakery Goods
Product Kind Food
Sport Fox Hunting
Food Attribute Hot Water Crust Pastry
Food Type Savory Pastry
Food Category Victual




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