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
Brooksby Melton College Brooksby Melton College Brooksby Melton College is a further education college based in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. The college has two campuses: the first is in Melton Mowbray itself and the second about west of Melton in the village of Brooksby including the late–16th-century manor house, Brooksby Hall. The college announced a link up with Rugby League side Leicester Storm of the Conference League South in 2015 following a £3.65m construction of state-of-the-art sport facilities at their Brooksby Melton College site. The club would be based and continue to play matches there as well as a link up between the two