Pork pie
Pork pies are a type of meat pie and are a common British food. They are made of chopped pork and pork jelly sealed in a hot water crust pastry, and are most of the time eaten cold. They are most of the time eaten at picnics, or in a lunch.
Pork Pie Media
Traditional pork pie is served cold
A Melton Mowbray pork pie, made by Dickinson & Morris, with a slice removed.
Large pork pie cut in half
A gala pie (so called because they were a treat at fairs, or galas), is a cuboidal pork pie with one or more embedded hard-boiled eggs. Generally made in two sizes, individual and larger. This shows a section through one.
Pork and cranberry picnic pie
Other websites
- The Pork Pie Appreciation Society
- Photos showing the steps in constructing a rather large pork pie Archived 2010-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
- Pork pie, in What Am I Eating? A Food Dictionary