Pork Pies

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Title

Pork Pies

Subject

Pork Pies

Description

Kenneth Barnett discusses how to make a good pork pie.

Creator

East Midlands Oral History Archive

Source

EMOHA

Publisher

EMOHA

Date

1986

Contributor

Image courtesy of Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. To use seek permission from https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/

Rights

You may use this item in accordance with the licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/

Format

.mp3

Type

Oral History

Duration

51sec

Transcription

My wife, I took her all round Leicestershire…afternoons and nights at institutes she demonstrated pork pies. I knew every bloomin’ village in the county very near…to get it the right consistency for the pie to stand up on its own without being in a tin or anything you just got to have the right quantity of lard to the flour and then they’d stand and you could fill them with the pork meat and then put the top on and you could put them in the oven and they’d bake without moving…I think there was a certain amount of water put with them…that was it, that was the Leicestershire pork pie. She always used shoulder pork for the pies. She always reckoned that was the best.

Interviewer

N. van Heender

Interviewee

Kenneth Barnett

Location

Hungarton, Leicestershire

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