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
Melton Mowbray railway station by no later than 2012 will not go ahead in the original timescale. From Melton Mowbray there is an hourly service off-peak in both directions operated by CrossCountry. Westbound, trains run to Birmingham via , and Coleshill. Eastbound, trains run to via , Ely and . Additional trains run at peak times, with some terminating at Cambridge. Although the next station westbound is , there are no direct services between the two stations. Despite managing the station, East Midlands Trains (EMT) only operates a limited number of services to the station. A single daily return service to London St Pancras