Pork pie when the pie is cooked, traditional recipes specified that clarified butter or a hot pork stock was poured into the pie after baking. This would set when cool, filling the gap between meat and pastry and preventing air from reaching the filling and causing it to spoil. Commercial makers use a 6% solution of gelatin at between 80 and 90 degrees Celsius, added into the pie immediately after baking. The Melton Mowbray pork pie is named after Melton Mowbray, a town in Leicestershire. While it is sometimes claimed that Melton pies became popular among fox hunters in the area in
A607 road the left, where it is crossed by the Jubilee Way. As "Thorpe Road" it passes the small Melton Mowbray Hospital on the right, near the B676 junction, and passes the JET "Brobot Melton Mowbray" garage and a Tesco on the right. It bends to the right, and the road ahead, "Melton Spinney Road", is the exit for Twinlakes Theme Park (in the parish of Waltham and Thorpe Arnold). In Thorpe Arnold (Waltham and Thorpe Arnold parish) it passes the church, then ascends the Leicestershire wolds, passing Melton Mowbray Golf Club on the right. The Waltham transmitting station dominates the view