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
John Ferneley He fathered six children with his first wife (who died in 1836) - three of whom also became painters. Ferneley kept a set of account books dating between 1807 and 1860; the detailed notes providing useful material for later historians. John Ferneley College in Melton Mowbray, is named after him. Ferneley died in 1860 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. John Ferneley John E. Ferneley (18 May 1782 Thrussington, Leicestershire – 1860 Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire), was an English painter who specialised in portraying sporting horses and hunting scenes. Although his rendition of horses was stylised, he is regarded as one of the