  a pork pie is a traditional british meat pie. it consists of roughly chopped pork and pork jelly sealed in a hot water crust pastry.traditional pork pie recipe - recipewise it is normally eaten cold as a snack or as part of a meal. ==types== thumb|right|traditional pork pie is served cold ===common pie=== the common pie uses cured meat. often produced in moulds or form, it gives the outside of the pie a very regular shape and the inside filling a pink colour. it is easier, simpler and cheaper to produce in volume, and hence the more common choice for commercial manufacturers. ===melton mowbray pork pie=== thumb|right|a melton mowbray pork pie the melton mowbray pork pie is named after melton mowbray, a town in leicestershire.melton mowbray pork pie recipe - recipewise melton pies became popular among fox hunters in the area during the late eighteenth century.  the uncured meat of a melton pie is grey in colour when cooked; the meat is chopped, rather than minced. the pie is made with a hand-formed crust&nbsp;â this style of production gives the pie a slightly irregular shape after baking. as the pies are baked free-standing, the sides bow out and they are not vertical like mould-baked pies. in light of the premium price of the melton mowbray pie, the melton mowbray pork pie association applied for protection under the european "protected designation of origin" laws as a result of the increasing production of melton mowbray-style pies by large commercial companies in factories far from melton mowbray, and recipes that deviated from the original uncured pork form. protection was granted on 4 april 2008, with the result that only pies made within a designated zone around melton, and using the traditional recipe including uncured pork, are allowed to carry the melton mowbray name on their packaging.{{cite news|title= pork pie makers celebrate status |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicest
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