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
Harston, Leicestershire Road. The engine shed has been removed and re-erected at Rutland Railway Museum, Cottesmore, Rutland. The last two steam locomotives are used on preserved railways. Harston is served by three weekday buses a day between Melton Mowbray and Grantham. Grantham is the nearest railway station (6.1 miles, 9.8 km). The main A607 road between Melton Mowbray and Grantham runs to the south of the village. Harston, Leicestershire Harston is a crossroads village in Leicestershire, England, near the border with Lincolnshire. The nearest town is Grantham, about to the north-east. It forms part of the civil parish of Belvoir, which in