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Pork and Egg Pie

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Double-crust hot water pie filled with chopped cured pork and a whole hard-boiled egg in the centre.


Pork and Egg Pie


When made not as an individual pie, but as a large loaf-type pie to be sold in portions by the grocer, honest-dealing demands that every single slice have a circle of both egg yolk and egg white in its centre - which has led to the ingeniously odd practice of manufacturing a long tubular form of boiled egg specifically for putting into pies

This pie type has been with us for a long time:


Original Receipt from The Forme of Cury by the Chief Master-Cook of King Richard II, c1390 (Cury 1390)

MYLATES OF PORK.
Hewe Pork al to pecys and medle it with ayrenn & chese igrated. do žerto powdour fort safroun & pyneres with salt, make a crust in a trape, bake it wel žerinne, and serue it forth.






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