Hand Raised Pork pie
Hand Raised Pork pie

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, hand raised pork pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Hand Raised Pork pie is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Hand Raised Pork pie is something that I have loved my entire life.

Making a traditional hand-raised pork pie is easier than you may imagine. These easy to follow instructions and tasty recipe will show you how. I don't eat them very often because I've had plenty of bad ones, but every now and again at a farmers market or in a traditional pub, I might treat myself to one.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hand raised pork pie using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Hand Raised Pork pie:
  1. Prepare The Filling:
  2. Make ready 600 grams Shoulder of Pork cut in 5 cm dice
  3. Make ready 250 grams Diced pork Belly 5 cm
  4. Get 250 grams Bacon (l use smoked streaky), cut in 5cm dice
  5. Prepare 1/2 tsp dried sage
  6. Make ready 1/2 tsp dried thyme
  7. Make ready 1/2 tsp Mace
  8. Make ready 1 tsp ground white pepper
  9. Make ready 2 pinch Ground nutmeg
  10. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  11. Make ready For the Pastry:
  12. Get 200 grams Lard
  13. Take 220 grams water
  14. Prepare 575 grams Strong flour
  15. Take 1 pinch Salt
  16. Take 1 each eggs
  17. Prepare For the Stock:
  18. Get 1 Pork, Cicken or Vegetable stock cube
  19. Get 200 ml boiling water
  20. Take 5 leaves gelatine to set the stock

As a hand raised pie cooks, the meat inside naturally shrinks. This leaves you with a gap between that delicious, buttery pastry and the meaty bit in the middle. In days gone by, when refrigeration was primitive, that gap could have posed serious health risks. The original Melton Mowbray pork pie is a thing of beauty, and this is our version.

Instructions to make Hand Raised Pork pie:
  1. Mix all the filling ingredients together with a half a teaspoon of corse black pepper and set to one side
  2. Make the pastry by boiling the lard and water together when the lard has melted fold into the flour & salt and mix with a wooden spoon to make the pastry
  3. Allow the pastry to cool a little so you can handle it but it must be warm. Cut a quarter of the pastry and set aside for the lid. with The remainder line a 20cm (8 inch) cake tin with a loose bottom using your hands to raise it up the side of the tin and level the bottom as evenly as you can
  4. Fill the pastry with the pork filling. Brush the top of the edges with beaten egg and seal the lid in place
  5. Brush the top with egg. Make a hole in the top of the lid ro allow the steam out. Place on a baking sheet/tray and place in the oven at 180C for 30 minutes then reduce to 150C and bake for a further 90 minutes
  6. After 90 minutes remove from the tin, brush all over with egg and return to the oven for a further 30 minutes until the pastry is a nice pale gold
  7. When cooking has finished allow to cool. when cold add the stock with the gelatine through the hole in the top (a small funnel is very useful) and refrigerate overnight. Eat and enjoy the following day!

Place the pies on a wire rack over a baking tray. Carefully pour the chilled stock into the pie holes, letting it settle each time before adding more. As a result the Pork Pie was very much appreciated. Having said that it was not the greatest, however as time has progressed I have honed my recipe and my 'hand raising' technique has improved greatly. My jelly has also got a lot better although I sometimes still struggle to get it completely surrounding the.

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