My local bakery here in Dublin was run by an elderly man from Rutland. In addition to bread, he sold pork pies - but only on Saturdays for some reason. They were DELICIOUS. He used sage and parsley in the filling, not just salt and pepper. M&S pork pies aren't a patch on them. The baker, a Mr Hepplewhite, sadly passed away a couple of years ago. RIP
Would dearly love to watch this whole series again. Such a time capsule. I loved listening to Derek Cooper'on The Food Program on Radio 4, what a fantastic voice
Memories of making a genuine pork pie Very manual but made with ❤ Derek Cooper I remember watching him on TV And Keith Floyd They were characters ❤️❤️❤️❤️🏴🏴🏴👍 👍 👍 😃😃
Back then if you lived outwith that area Melton Mowbray pies were only available in delicatessens. I remember Saxby's were a delicious treat for this teenage lad.
Not to mention river-caught salmon, Cumberland & Lincolnshire sausages, hot buttered crumpets, scones with clotted cream & home made jam, Lancashire hotpot and the Birmingham Balti.
Some of the highest quality meat in the world, island nation so huge range of seafood, beautiful seasonal produce. The stereotype is outdated parroted by idiots.
A big wedge of Melton Mowbray, a chunk of extra mature red Leicester, a thick slice of crusty farmhouse with real butter, a generous blob of. Piccalilli and I am In heaven.
Sounds Yummy Yummy That’s my kind of pub lunch I think I heard a news report in the last few weeks about a famous pork pie shop closing I’m not sure where in the places known for making them like Leicester etc 😃😃❤️❤️👍 👍 🏴🏴
@@smudger671 Yeah, I understand that a lot of people don't like it. I don't know if it's the gelatinous texture that some people don't like, or the flavour, or both.
Pork production is often found in Cheese making areas, as the Pigs can utilise the waste whey, that is full of protein. Similar to the Parma Ham and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese region of Italy.
I don't know about you, but my mouth is watering watching this! A good pint and a slice of pie. Throw in a couple of silver skin pickled onions and I'm in heaven!
Is that Bailey from Upper Broughton, he made the best pork pies, sadly no more. My dad knew him, he used to take pork pies and potted beef down to the Stute on a Friday night.
It pains me to admit we don’t have pork pies as good as this in New Zealand. The only times I get to enjoy them is on the increasingly rare occasions I visit England and am able to pick some up at Fortnums (I’m not going all the way oop North just to satisfy my pie cravings at the source). I have had pretty good pork pies in Sydney, but I don’t get to go there very much either now. I found the butcher’s remarks about using meat from pigs that died happy were interesting, and I suspect it really does make a difference. Also, I don’t entirely agree with his claim to only use the simplest seasoning - I’ve had a pie that had a small amount of anchovy sauce in the filling, and it was a noticeable improvement. Some Kiwis are so used to hot beef pies they can’t accomodate the idea of enjoying a cold pork pie with aspic, garnished with a little Colman’s mustard and perhaps horseradish and washed down with a room temperature pint of bitter. More fool them!
If only the world was so simple today without the need to mass produce for the masses, the time and care to produce this exquisite pie is fading in the current era what a shame...
@@MrDantyson It's incredible how little people who claim to want to return to the "good old days" actually know about the histories of their various countries.
If you're ever in Kyneton, Victoria you might visit Piper Street Food Co whose pork pies are as good as any I had in England in the 1970s. Or you can make your own: see for example Scott Rea's superb RUclips clip on how to do it. If I were condemned to eat only one dish for the rest of my days the pork pie would be it.
@@NormaStitz-w1fthat's true but with Sainsbury's Tesco Morrisons Asda Waitrose even Aldi and Lidl all selling Melton mowbray pies by the thousands every day you can be sure they're not made like this
Right, here's the plan. First, we go in there and get wrecked, then we eat a pork pie, then we drop some Surmontil-50's each. That way we'll miss out on Monday and come up smiling Tuesday morning
These pies look DELICIOUS 😋 the ones you get now from most supermarkets are vile 🤮 there is definitely a difference between things made by hand from love vs mass produced without a care in a factory.
It's hard to believe that back in the day, some slaughterhouses had such unsanitary conditions that they led to outbreaks of botulism and salmonella. Thankfully, we've come a long way since then, with strict health and safety standards ensuring that the food we consume is safe and hygienic. It's a testament to the power of progress and the importance of prioritizing public health and well-being.
I get my meat from a small country butcher in the midwest US. Carcasses and quarters hanging in the 80 year old cooler, original meat grinder and giant butcher table behind the counter. Everything's fresh. It's roughly in between this video and modern practices, but the quality is always great and nobody gets sick. That's not scalable, so factory food is a necessity of modern life, but it's nice to avoid it for my meat at least.
M&S used to do lovely Melton Mowbray pork pies, they are almost horrible now with claggy pastry and over salted filling. Must wonder why they would bother to destroy a good thing
It’s not, it was a small butchers in Upper Broughton, his family did not carry on the family business when he retired. My dad knew him and also the old lady making pies in the background.
A Melton mowbery pie made like that today would cost an absolute fortune .I hope it's protected . Being Cornish our pasties are an art form as well . Who wants to eat a kebab ffs
The ingredients alone would probably be £5 today, looks like a near pound of pork mince, plus labour and margin and whi knows, maybe £15 for this pie? Haha
Im in my 20s and Im so sad I didnt get to experience this Britain. It was far from perfect but the prices? The hard work? The "Properness" of this just feels lost in this fast food, ultra processed unaffordable mess of a world. Nostalgic for something i never experienced.
Humbling to watch, especially to see how they make a pork pie "for the older generation". I'm pretty sure the production of these pork pies now is several manufacturing "generations" ahead of what we're watching here - you won't see the casual walking of the chopped pork down the street to the workshop nowadays. I think we need to go two steps forward and three steps back to regain the healthier production of food.
Not sure if this helps, but recently I’ve been living abit more simply… inspired by days gone by… I’ve switched to a flip phone, use cash, stopped using social media (other than RUclips, of course, I have set up a desktop situation so after a while I get uncomfortable and move away, to stop endless scrolling), I buy the paper to get my news and my mental health has never been better - I have found we really are in control with our lives, even if these days, it doesn’t feel like we are.
1980 not 2000 but yes. I guess when I was in grade school in the midwest US things were still simple - TV and Nintendo but no internet - but it would have been interesting to actually live it as an adult.
My local bakery here in Dublin was run by an elderly man from Rutland. In addition to bread, he sold pork pies - but only on Saturdays for some reason. They were DELICIOUS. He used sage and parsley in the filling, not just salt and pepper. M&S pork pies aren't a patch on them.
The baker, a Mr Hepplewhite, sadly passed away a couple of years ago. RIP
lots of love to you, from rutland!
Cause of the Sabbath. Gotta cause maximum offense when you're that old. Don't got much time left.
We live on in the hearts of the people we touch. Thank you for sharing.
I doubt the bakery is still open run by anyone else? Where was it in Dublin?
A pie and a pint. I'm not sure life gets much better.
Well...taken in a traditional pub.
Pie and some scotch. Preferably highland single malt
Surprised the BBC allowed this comment.
a prayer and a pint
Im sure it would if you took the fookin' jelly out. Disgusting.
"When the ladies have finished making htem, they're egged, trayed and put into the three-decked oven."
That's no way to treat your staff!
Lol
Chivalry is dead, my friend.
the women were tougher then
2 of my favourite words put together to make something special, pork and pie!
Pork pie with a generous dollop of Colemans English mustard is just wonderful.
I hope to have an authentic one someday.
@@civlyzed you’ve never had a pork pie?
Or Pickle.
Or a spoon of Branston Pickle. The original chunky one, obviously. 👌
@@cct7558 He said "an authentic one".
Would dearly love to watch this whole series again. Such a time capsule. I loved listening to Derek Cooper'on The Food Program on Radio 4, what a fantastic voice
Memories of making a genuine pork pie
Very manual but made with ❤
Derek Cooper
I remember watching him on TV
And Keith Floyd
They were characters
❤️❤️❤️❤️🏴🏴🏴👍 👍 👍 😃😃
Beautiful, what a treasure trove.
I see started 1851 and still made today.
Always love a good quality Poke Pie, nothing better for a summer picnic along with a good cheddar cheese and a cold beer
So happy everytime I see one of these pop up :)
Back then if you lived outwith that area Melton Mowbray pies were only available in delicatessens. I remember Saxby's were a delicious treat for this teenage lad.
Whoever said they don't have good food over there? These look bloody marvellous.
We have good food in the U.K.
Good Beef, Lamb, Cheese, Fish, Whiskey and Beers as well as our Pork Pies and our Bakewell Tarts
Not to mention river-caught salmon, Cumberland & Lincolnshire sausages, hot buttered crumpets, scones with clotted cream & home made jam, Lancashire hotpot and the Birmingham Balti.
This'd be torture to someone on a diet
Some of the highest quality meat in the world, island nation so huge range of seafood, beautiful seasonal produce. The stereotype is outdated parroted by idiots.
No it isn't. Trying to find decent food in the UK is a needle in a haystack.
A big wedge of Melton Mowbray, a chunk of extra mature red Leicester, a thick slice of crusty farmhouse with real butter, a generous blob of. Piccalilli and I am In heaven.
My Mouth watered reading this
Sounds Yummy Yummy
That’s my kind of pub lunch
I think I heard a news report in the last few weeks about a famous pork pie shop closing
I’m not sure where in the places known for making them like Leicester etc
😃😃❤️❤️👍 👍 🏴🏴
No Colman's?
@@newspaperface Good point.
And a pint of bitter.
Pork pies sure are addictive. I don't get why some people don't like the delicious jelly. I love it.
@@DeannaAllison Here here!
I agree, the jelly’s the best bit.
@@nez9751 lol
I can't eat a pork pie unless I scrape out the revolting jelly.
@@smudger671 Yeah, I understand that a lot of people don't like it. I don't know if it's the gelatinous texture that some people don't like, or the flavour, or both.
Pork production is often found in Cheese making areas, as the Pigs can utilise the waste whey, that is full of protein. Similar to the Parma Ham and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese region of Italy.
They look amazing. Nice healthy portion to. I hope they are still being made like that.
blimey i'm starving now pork pie stilton and beer
I'm mexican but I love England with all my heart and how much I miss the old england
It's still here just harder to find.
@@goldieandblackieyeah just avoid the cities and towns.
Imagine how much we miss it
Thank you, and yeah we miss old England too!
It's wonderful for you to say. Yet, at that time, you would have faced a lot of racism as a Mexican.
BBC Archive, cool video keep up the good content
I had no idea the jelly was added manually.
I always just assumed it came out of the meat during the cooking/cooling process.
I actually found out this about thirty years ago. Surprised me too, but it is derived from the skin and bones.
Aspic. Like the eels.
Living in Meltom Mowbray, I honestly love the ones made here 🎉
I don't know about you, but my mouth is watering watching this! A good pint and a slice of pie. Throw in a couple of silver skin pickled onions and I'm in heaven!
Used to live near Melton Mowbray. Great pies. 😋
Ooh that crispy pastry crust & pork filling - bootiful
Fantastic 😊
Proper pork pies and only type i really enjoy and washed down with a lint if beer from burton too
The taste of my childhood, I always loved pork pies since I was a wee lad.
Bloody salivating here…
Haha the guy at the end "a succulent Chinese pie?"
Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest😆
Work of art 👌🏼
Looks delicious
Is that Bailey from Upper Broughton, he made the best pork pies, sadly no more. My dad knew him, he used to take pork pies and potted beef down to the Stute on a Friday night.
It is. Best Pork Pies in the entire Vale. Much better than D&M and Mrs Kings
Thanks for the info!
I live in Rickmansworth, where the pubs charge you £10 for a sandwich. Round here the days of a pie or a ploughmans are long gone.
You know that the "ploughman's lunch" was invented in the 1970s, right? It's pure pub marketing, not some traditional thing.
I live in Watford. That upper crust bakery in Ricky was awesome shame it closed down. Have you been in the feathers before ?
I wish i was a pork pie
LOOKS GREAT.
British have an obsession with pies. In the future, another civilization would conclude that those people were great mathematicians.
Ploughman’s lunch using this pie, good cheese, pickles, salad nice crusty bread. A pint of Guinness, doesn’t get much better than that for me. .
Stop it!
It pains me to admit we don’t have pork pies as good as this in New Zealand. The only times I get to enjoy them is on the increasingly rare occasions I visit England and am able to pick some up at Fortnums (I’m not going all the way oop North just to satisfy my pie cravings at the source).
I have had pretty good pork pies in Sydney, but I don’t get to go there very much either now.
I found the butcher’s remarks about using meat from pigs that died happy were interesting, and I suspect it really does make a difference. Also, I don’t entirely agree with his claim to only use the simplest seasoning - I’ve had a pie that had a small amount of anchovy sauce in the filling, and it was a noticeable improvement.
Some Kiwis are so used to hot beef pies they can’t accomodate the idea of enjoying a cold pork pie with aspic, garnished with a little Colman’s mustard and perhaps horseradish and washed down with a room temperature pint of bitter. More fool them!
I don't know I they are the best pies in the world but I absolutely love them
That’s something 😮
If only the world was so simple today without the need to mass produce for the masses, the time and care to produce this exquisite pie is fading in the current era what a shame...
It looks like a pie from old Beano and Dandy comics.
A proppa Pint Glass ..not seen one of those in a long while. Kids got no wrist these days.
I clicked because of Thank Goodness You're Here 😅
that made my mouth water........
I wish we still had local butchers like this guy here in America.
The Narrator is superbly British ❤
Speaking as a Canadian, of all the British pies I've had in my 61 years in this planet, I don't think I have ever had a Melton Mowbray.
I Love any sort of pie's
Any sort of pie's what?
I wish I could time travel for dinner
Pork pie, crisps on top, chicken ceaser salad and a nice dollop of Calpol to wash it down.... heaven
RIP Great Britain, you were so original and hard working. So sad
someone needs to make a time machine and fast....
@@jungleboy1 amen🙏
We need our sovereignty back
@@hattorihanzo69 UK was in the EU Common Market when this was filmed and had been for a half decade.
@@MrDantyson It's incredible how little people who claim to want to return to the "good old days" actually know about the histories of their various countries.
Anyone else hungry?
Already had an ice cream :)
So hungry.. Please send one to me here in Wisconsin!
Hungry for your seed Jonny, load me daddy.
Me! I want two of these, please.
Or thirsty?
I see they are still going today, 5.15 or 7.95 for the hand finished pie. Shame here in Australia we have nothing like this.
If you're ever in Kyneton, Victoria you might visit Piper Street Food Co whose pork pies are as good as any I had in England in the 1970s. Or you can make your own: see for example Scott Rea's superb RUclips clip on how to do it. If I were condemned to eat only one dish for the rest of my days the pork pie would be it.
I never knew pork pies used to have cubed meat instead of mince. Now I want to try one like that
I like mine thinly sliced with a smear of English mustard on it, just lush.
I'm from Melton and we don't shut up about pork pies
I wonder how much one of those pies would cost back then. A 440g pie today is apparently £7.95
Tried to eat one of the big ones they do all at once a couple of months back. I felt so naive for even attempting it
I have to agree about Beaver. The very best.
Have a drink every time he says ‘Melton Mowbray pork pie’
. Looks delicious
I want one
Now I need to fly to England for dinner lol
Lovely
Does anyone know where that pub is?
Made with love by those dear old ladies. You can only imagine what their modern factories look like now. 😢
@@rensha8635 The real Melton Mowbrays are still made much the same way. Ade Edmundson did a programme on them a couple of years ago.
@@NormaStitz-w1fthat's true but with Sainsbury's Tesco Morrisons Asda Waitrose even Aldi and Lidl all selling Melton mowbray pies by the thousands every day you can be sure they're not made like this
I've just imagined god help us!
A good butchers will still make them. Not everything is mass produced like you seem to think.
OMG... so hungry now....
You don’t seem to get much jelly these days though.😢
The store bought ones never do but the proper fresh ones from butchers do
Mmmmm pie
Right, here's the plan. First, we go in there and get wrecked, then we eat a pork pie, then we drop some Surmontil-50's each. That way we'll miss out on Monday and come up smiling Tuesday morning
Wow, the thumbnail looks so much like a low budget horror movie i expect them to be made from people.
No better pork pie anywhere than a Glaisdale pork pie,,,better than all the rest !😊
What is the Vail of beaver?
Vale of Belvoir is a region in the east midlands
Guarantee they don't put the love into them theses days!!
Who is the presenter at the end with the beer?
These pies look DELICIOUS 😋 the ones you get now from most supermarkets are vile 🤮 there is definitely a difference between things made by hand from love vs mass produced without a care in a factory.
What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent pork pie meal?
I bet these pies taste much better then the supermarket pies of today?
I wonder if they still use the same ingredients.
Another world 🌎 now
It's hard to believe that back in the day, some slaughterhouses had such unsanitary conditions that they led to outbreaks of botulism and salmonella. Thankfully, we've come a long way since then, with strict health and safety standards ensuring that the food we consume is safe and hygienic. It's a testament to the power of progress and the importance of prioritizing public health and well-being.
Ugg. Big government kooks are the ones killing old school real food.
Oh bore off.
@@oblux true i miss salmonella
I get my meat from a small country butcher in the midwest US. Carcasses and quarters hanging in the 80 year old cooler, original meat grinder and giant butcher table behind the counter. Everything's fresh. It's roughly in between this video and modern practices, but the quality is always great and nobody gets sick. That's not scalable, so factory food is a necessity of modern life, but it's nice to avoid it for my meat at least.
As an ex-Muslim, I regret that I missed out on these delicious pies for the first 37 years of my life.
Better late than never😅
@@xfactor3000 Good on yer. Nothing like apostasy for broadening one's culinary range.
Eating pig while drinking cider. Doesn’t get better than that.
Well done for seeing the light ( hope you haven’t jumped into another religion though).
And bacon sandwiches
@@specialforces101 Absolutely 😋
REAL PORK PIE ❤
M&S used to do lovely Melton Mowbray pork pies, they are almost horrible now with claggy pastry and over salted filling. Must wonder why they would bother to destroy a good thing
Does anyone know if this pie factory is still in. Operation?
It’s not, it was a small butchers in Upper Broughton, his family did not carry on the family business when he retired. My dad knew him and also the old lady making pies in the background.
@@badfly1That’s a shame. What happened to the Building? Is it still used commercially?
@@bouncingbluesoul5270 no, it’s housing now. Still the old building but converted.
It’s dying art these days making it by hand , what with mass production methods
A Melton mowbery pie made like that today would cost an absolute fortune .I hope it's protected . Being Cornish our pasties are an art form as well . Who wants to eat a kebab ffs
The ingredients alone would probably be £5 today, looks like a near pound of pork mince, plus labour and margin and whi knows, maybe £15 for this pie? Haha
I’m hungry
Back when we looked after out own country.
Im in my 20s and Im so sad I didnt get to experience this Britain. It was far from perfect but the prices? The hard work? The "Properness" of this just feels lost in this fast food, ultra processed unaffordable mess of a world.
Nostalgic for something i never experienced.
This is what Britain used to be about
Humbling to watch, especially to see how they make a pork pie "for the older generation". I'm pretty sure the production of these pork pies now is several manufacturing "generations" ahead of what we're watching here - you won't see the casual walking of the chopped pork down the street to the workshop nowadays. I think we need to go two steps forward and three steps back to regain the healthier production of food.
Wow. Ive yet to have a mowbray pie which is marbled all the way through...
3:00 I sincerely hope this lady has OBE (at least) after her name.
The butcher sounds like Brian Clough
Who is the presenter?
And Melton Pork pies are still the best you can buy and eat
This is the real story of the 3 little pigs.
Anyone else wish they weren’t born in the year 2000? Why does everything seem so much more peaceful before I was alive?
Not sure if this helps, but recently I’ve been living abit more simply… inspired by days gone by… I’ve switched to a flip phone, use cash, stopped using social media (other than RUclips, of course, I have set up a desktop situation so after a while I get uncomfortable and move away, to stop endless scrolling), I buy the paper to get my news and my mental health has never been better - I have found we really are in control with our lives, even if these days, it doesn’t feel like we are.
1980 not 2000 but yes. I guess when I was in grade school in the midwest US things were still simple - TV and Nintendo but no internet - but it would have been interesting to actually live it as an adult.