The Great Melton Mowbray Pork Pie!

*Authentic pork pies should only be made from the finest fresh pork (not bacon or ham) so the cooked meat is of a natural colour likened to that of roast pork.*

*The meat should be coarsely chopped.*

*No preservatives should be used; the pie is seasoned with a special blend of salt and pepper.*

*The pie must be baked in the traditional manner, without supporting hoop or tin, giving the rounded and slightly bow-sided shape long associated with a Melton Mowbray Pork Pie.*

*Natural bone stock jelly should be added after baking to enhance the flavour of the meat and ensure a moist, but firm texture to eat.*

*The traditional Melton Mowbray Pork Pie is best eaten one hour after removing from the refrigerator to really appreciate the delicious eating experience!*

And that I'm afraid, is all they'll tell us!

I will now leave you with a wonderful synopsis of the Great English Melton Mowbray Pork Pie written by fellow Suite editor Stuart MacWatt: It emerges early in the colourful pageantry of English history.

We first hear of it when King Alfred the Great was scolded for burning the Pork Pies.

The Great Pork Pie is heard of again when Robert the Bruce gave a tiny bit of his pork pie to a spider which spun the tidbit into a web and inspired him into beating the hell out of the English so that he could collect a ransom in Pork Pies.

The French Dauphin attempted to bribe Henry V with a chest of pork pies, prompting Henry to get on over to France soonest for more of the same. The Battle of Aginpork is in every English history book!

British history is full of great moments when the destiny of the Kingdom lay in the hands of the Master Baker of the Royal Pork Pie.

Drake was testing the crust durability of Pork Pies as Navy victuals by rolling them on a Bowling Green at Plymouth Hoe when the Armada was sighted.

Porkespeare's soliloquy of a sleepless Hamlet afflicted with night hunger is known by every schoolboy:

"To pie or not to pie,

That is the question.

Whether 'tis nobler In the tums of men

To suffer the gripes and crampings

Of our midnight hunger…..

We celebrate the foiling of the dastardly Gunpowder plot every year on Guy Pawkes Night.

The Indian Mutiny happened because the Sepoys were made to eat Pork Pies as rations, and it was against their religion to

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