What is different about Melton Mowbray pork pie?
The main distinctive feature of a Melton pie is that it is made with a hand-formed crust. The uncured meat of a Melton pie is grey in colour when cooked; the meat is chopped, rather than minced. Melton Mowbray pork pies are also served cold, unlike the Yorkshire pork pie.
Why is pork pie meat grey?
The pork filling is uncured and therefore grey in colour – the colour of roast pork. You will find that other pork pies have meat much more pink in colour because they use cured meat. Melton Mowbray Pork Pies have a jelly, made from gelatine or bonestock, added to fill the gaps and help preserve the meat.
What is a pie Dolly?
Here’s a piece of kitchen gear you won’t find at the corner specialty shop: a pie dolly. It’s used for making “raised” pies in the British style, “raising” being the act of drawing pie dough up and around a wooden form to make the shell. It’s then filled, topped with a dough round, crimped and baked.
What is the best Melton Mowbray pork pie?
Leeson Family Butchers’ Melton Mowbray pork pies are amongst the best in the world. Show Champion in 2018 and Gold award winner 2019.
Who makes Aldi Melton Mowbray Pork Pies?
Specifications
| Size / volume | 295g |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Aldi Stores Ltd., PO Box 26, Atherstone, Warwickshire, CV9 2SH |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Nutrition information | Energy 1500kJ, 361kcal Fat 25g of which saturates 9.7g Carbohydrate 23g of which sugars 1.1g Fibre 1.2g Protein 11g Salt 0g |
| Brand name | Specially Selected |
Are Melton Mowbray pies made in Melton Mowbray?
The Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association is a group of pork pie manufacturers in the Melton Mowbray area of England, UK.
Why is there no jelly in pork pies?
The jelly in British pork pies is added deliberately, after the rest of the pie is cooked, to help keep the meat moist. In good pies it is usually either ham or chicken stock which jellifies as it cools.
What goes with Melton Mowbray pork pie?
The real Melton Mowbray pork pie is always eaten cold along with pickled onions, pickled cabbage, and/or chutney. If there is an annoying nutritionist around, then by all means, toss some salad onto the plate.
What is the jelly in a pork pie?
What does a hand raised pie mean?
The warm dough is kneaded ever so slightly until it is soft and smooth. It is then fitted either into a high‐sided pan or mold and “raised” by hand, starting from the base and drawing upwards to form the walls of the pie.
What is the jelly in pork pies called?
Note: the main difference between making a traditional pork ‘stock’ (used for soups and sauces) and making an aspic ‘jelly’ (used in pork pies etc.) is a longer reducing time (simmering) and the addition of the pigs trotters, which add in more natural gelatine to the stock, which helps the stock set into an aspic jelly …
Who makes the best pork pie?
The top five pork pies
- 1) Mrs Kings Pork Pies – Melton Mowbray.
- 2) Brays Cottage – Norfolk.
- 3) Wilson’s Butcher’s – Leeds.
- 4) Walter Smith Butcher’s – Birmingham.
- 5) Bradley’s Bakery – Ashton under Lyme.
Where do they make the Melton Mowbray pork pies?
Melton Mowbray pork pies are, as the name suggests, pork pies made in Melton Mowbray and its surrounding area. These little parcels of goodness are not just any pork pies.
Which is the oldest bakery in Melton Mowbray?
Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe is run by butchers Dickinson and Morris, founded in 1851. It is the oldest bakery and last one to actually make their pies in Melton Mowbray. I was sorry not to have been able to watch one of their demos, but the photographs on the wall gave me a few hints on how to form the pastry round the dolly.
How big is a pork pie Dolly mould?
PORK PIE DOLLY MOULD HANDCRAFTED IN MELTON 2, 2.5 & 4 in diameter approx dispatched with royal mail 2nd class. MasterClass KCMCHB30 10 cm Deep Cake Tin with pork pie dolly mould hand made in melton mowbray 2″ across base. Uk before purchasing that your postcode is in their delivery area
What kind of mould is used for pork pie?
Pork pie mould from a old butchers shop pie top cutter labled camwheat pie machine company leeds no makers marks visable on the other two pieces. Master class pork pie tin / mould 4″ non stick.