Melton Mowbray Pie

This raised pork pie is a speciality of Melton Mowbray and is the most famous of all English pies. In the shires, hunting folk sometimes took a slice of it instead of sandwiches to eat when they were out with the hounds. Others had it for high tea when they got home. Every cook and housewife had her own special recipe. The earliest recorded recipe dates from the fourteenth century and had raisins