Melton Mowbray Pork Pies

Famous for generations and entirely different from the bought pies which claim the same ancestry. The many recipes are all very simple, though the earliest I have found, from the fourteenth century, includes raisins and currants.

‘Flea [flay] Pyg and cut him in pieces, season with pepper and salt, and nutmeg, and large mace, and lay in your ‘coffin’ good store of raisins and currans, and fill with sweet butter and close it and serve hot or cold.’

All over the Shires every ma