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
Branston, Leicestershire Branston, Leicestershire Branston is a village in the civil parish of Croxton Kerrial and Branston, in Leicestershire, England. It is geographically situated north from the A607 road, south-west from Grantham and 7 miles north-east from Melton Mowbray. The village is at the southern edge of the Vale of Belvoir, and south-west from Belvoir Castle. Knipton Reservoir is to the north. The population is included in the civil parish of Croxton Kerrial. According to "A Dictionary of British Place Names", Branston could be "a farmstead or a village of a man called Brant" – 'Brant' from an Old English person name