Vale of Mowbray Grosvenor Pork Pie with Egg,, 0 g

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Pork is also a very cheap and nutritious meat and a large pork joint or piece of gammon makes an affordable meal for Sunday lunch, as well as for family suppers during the week. I love roast pork when served with apple sauce and a batch of home-made sage and onion stuffing, plus there’s all the leftovers for sandwiches, salads and pies too – it’s meat that keeps on giving.

Next, using a pastry brush, paint a little egg yolk round the edge of each lid and gently press a lid on each pie, egg side down. Then, using a small fork, press the rims of the lids against the tops of the pie cases. Re-roll any pastry trimmings and cut out diamond-shaped leaves to decorate the lids. Then glaze the tops of the pies with the rest of the egg yolk and make a steam hole in each one. Now place the muffin tin on the baking sheet and bake the pies for 30 minutes on the middle shelf, then remove them from the oven. For the pastry, put the flour and pepper in a food processor with the butter and 25g/1oz of the lard. Use the pulse setting to blend until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Pork pies for breakfast? The history behind the bizarre Leicestershire Christmas tradition". Leicester Mercury. 24 December 2017. Lightly oil or grease a large 1.5 litre (2 pint) terrine dish (or even a 2lb loaf tin). Cut down to size a piece of baking parchment to fit the bottom and up the long sides of the terrine dish, with some hanging over the edge.Cover the pie with the pastry lid, push it down into the pie tin and tightly around the pie filling. Pinch edges of the pastry lid and the pastry overhang (from the base) together to seal the pie. Take a knife and go around the sides of the pie tin cleaning the pastry up. You can use up any left over pastry to make pastry pie leaves and other shapes etc. to go on the pie lid. We have some of the best pork in Europe (and the world) and where I live in North Yorkshire, there are some wonderful free-range pig farms close by; so, fresh free-range pork as well as gammon, sausages and bacon are readily available in the local farm shop, plus it’s lovely to see the pigs happily playing in and munching on grass in the fields nearby, it’s a real field to fork enterprise. Brush one of the long pastry edges lightly with beaten egg and bring both sides to in the middle to encase the filling. (You may need to use the baking parchment to help you lift the pasty.) Press the all edges very firmly together to seal and trim the top neatly with a sharp set of kitchen scissors, leaving 1cm/½in or so for the crest. Crimp the top edge into a wiggly line on top of the pie. To make the pastry sieve the flour into a large mixing bowl with the salt. Put the lard and milk into a saucepan with the water, then heat until the lard has completely melted. Pour this hot liquid into the flour and beat together with a wooden spoon until combined, forming a soft, pliable ball of dough. Modern pork pies are a direct descendant of the raised meat pies of medieval cuisine, which used a dense hot water crust pastry as a simple means of preserving the filling. [2] In France the same recipes gave rise to the modern Pâté en croute [ fr]. Many medieval meat pie recipes were sweetened, often with fruit, and were meant to be eaten cold: the crust was discarded rather than being eaten. A particularly elaborate and spectacular recipe described in medieval recipe collection The Forme of Cury was a meat pie featuring a crust formed into battlements and filled with sweet custards, the entire pie then being served flambeed: a distant descendant of this dish, with hollow pastry turrets around a central pork pie, was still current in the 18th century under the name "battalia pie". [3] Hannah Glasse's influential 1747 recipe collection included a recipe for a " Cheshire pork pie", having a filling of layers of pork loin and apple, slightly sweetened with sugar, and filled with half a pint (285ml) of white wine. By the 19th century sweetened fruit and meat combinations had become less common, and the raised crust pork pie took its modern form.

Some of you may not be familiar with gala pie at all, it’s basically a pork pie cooked in a loaf tin with a central column of boiled eggs running through the middle. Apparently, when they produce this commercially, they use one long egg for the middle! They boil the yolks in a tube to get a cylinder and then they place the cooked yolks in a larger tube and put egg white around the yolks and boil again. This makes a perfect tube of egg, I wonder who thought that up! Assembling a gala pie with the central egg column Alternative A-Z of Yorkshire: The great, the good and the growlers". The Yorkshire Post. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018 . Retrieved 31 August 2017. The main distinctive feature of a Melton pie is that it is made with a hand-formed crust. [8] The uncured meat of a Melton pie is grey in colour when cooked and the meat is chopped, rather than minced. As the pies are baked free-standing, the sides bow outwards, rather than being vertical as with mould-baked pies. Melton Mowbray pork pies are served at room temperature, [9] [10] unlike pork pies in Yorkshire which may be served hot. Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil, then boil the eggs for 7 minutes. Cool in cold water, peel and then set aside.Tip the minced pork, sausage meat (remove and discard the skins if using sausages) chopped ham, sage and finely diced onion into a large bowl. Season with the salt and pepper and add a few good shakes of Worcestershire sauce. Mix well with your hands and between your fingers until completely combined. Roll the meat filling up into a ball and leave in the bowl. To make the pastry, combine the flours in a bowl, add the butter and rub in lightly with your fingertips. Heat 200ml/7fl oz water, the salt and lard in a saucepan until just boiling. Pour the mixture onto the flour and mix together with a spoon. Once cool enough to handle, tip onto a floured surface and knead into a smooth dough. Take just over half the meat mixture and pat it into a shape that will fit the terrine dish, then lay it in, covering the pastry base. Use your fingers to make a trench down the middle of the meat filling and bring it up at the sides. The onions in the pie filling sweeten the pie, complimenting the herbs, Worcestershire Sauce and pork meat, but if more than a small onion is used the taste of onion will start to dominate. The egg is a bundle of savoury joy next to the sweetness of the meat filling; while the pastry, using the very reliable hot water-crust recipe, is predictably tasty and substantial, crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. Pork, Egg & Ham Pie Recipe Recipe Ingredients:

How to Tell if You're Buying an Authentic Melton Mowbray Pork Pie". Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015 . Retrieved 1 October 2010. History of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie". The Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association. Archived from the original on 2 May 2015 . Retrieved 28 August 2013. Place half of the pork mixture lengthways down the middle of the pastry, leaving a 1.5cm/¾in boarder at each end. The pork should be roughly 25cm/10in long and 10cm/4in wide. Top with the floured eggs, standing on their ends and running next to each other all the way down the length of the pastry. Cover with the remaining pork mixture, making sure that all the eggs are completely enclosed, and press down lightly.

Pork, Egg & Ham Pie Recipe

This Pork, Egg and Ham Pie (very similar to a Gala Pie) is a very versatile pie which is great to eat in any season or on any occasion, Christmas, Easter or Summer Picnics etc. It is also a pie which you can make your own. Add in a few personal touches, depending on the season and the local availability of ingredients, like chopped apricots, wild mushrooms, green chili, or roasted red peppers etc. Brush the overhanging pastry edge with egg yolk. Roll out the remaining pastry to make a lid and place over the pie. Pinch the pastry edges together to seal and trim the edges neatly. Make three steam holes in the top of the pie and brush with more egg yolk.