Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, pork pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pork Pie is a standard Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve treat in my predominantly French-Canadian hometown in Maine. It's served with catsup or mustard, tossed salad, and pickles. A French Canadian meat pie usually served Christmas Eve, this pie has a lightly spiced and herbed pork filling with a pastry crust. Trim, press the edges into the sides of the pan and cut small steam vents in.

Pork Pie is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Pork Pie is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have pork pie using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pork Pie:

1. Prepare 800 grams pork shoulder finely diced
2. Prepare 209 grams smoked bacon lardons
3. Get 600 grams pork belly finely diced
4. Prepare Heaped tsp of salt and pepper
5. Take Heaped tsp of paprika (optional)
6. Take 1 heaped tbsp of mixed herbs
7. Get The Pastry
8. Get 200 grams lard
9. Prepare 200 ml cold water
10. Make ready 575 grams plain flour
11. Get 1 beaten egg for washing the pastry
12. Get For the jelly
13. Prepare 6 gelatine leaves soaked in cold water for 5 mins
14. Get 300 ml chicken stock (a couple of cubes)

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. Line a pie plate with the larger crust and spoon in the pork/potato mixture. Add the top crust and flute the edges.

Steps to make Pork Pie:

1. Set your oven to 190 degrees. Dice the meat and then place in a large bowl, add the mixed herbs, plenty of salt and pepper and the paprika (optional). Leave to marinate preferably over night!
2. In a pan set it on a high heat add the water and the lard, bring to the boil. In a large bowl add the flour, then pour into flour the lard and water. Bring it together with a spatula so it forms a dough! Kneed it then cut off a third, this is for the lid. Butter a 20 cm spring formed tin. Put the large portion of the dough in the tin. With your knuckles push out the pliable dough, up around the sides! Next add the meat pushing it down well.
3. Roll out the last bit of dough roughly into a round, place it on top of the pie, crimping the edges as you go! Make sure you leave a whole in the top, this is for the gelatine. Wash the pie with egg. Place in the oven at 190 degrees for 30 mins.
4. Next lower the oven and cook for another 1 hour 50 minutes. Keep an eye on the dough if it’s looking a bit dark cover it with tin foil leave it to cook. Lift out and let cook.
5. With the soaked gelatine leaves, add to hot stock storing well! Once the pie and stock have cooled, use a funnel to pour in the hole bit bye but. Place in the fridge!! Then tuck in once the gelatine has set!! Delicious 😋

Line a pie plate with the larger crust and spoon in the pork/potato mixture. Add the top crust and flute the edges. Brush the top with milk and prick with a fork. A classic English pork pie has a hand-formed hot water crust pastry, a minced or chopped pork filling, seasoned simply with salt and pepper and topped up with meat jelly, added after baking. Add pork, gravy, rosemary if desired, salt and pepper; set aside.

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