Pork Pie Dolly - Large Wooden Pie Mould - 2lb (2024)

FAQs

What size is a pie dolly? ›

The standard pie dolly is 2.75-3 inches in diameter. Wide pie dolly is 3.75-4 inched in diameter. Each pie dolly is individually handmade; the wood grain and shape may vary slightly from those pictured.

Melton Mowbray pie makers use a traditional wooden 'dolly'. But if you don't have one, a jam jar does the same job. Taking your dolly or jam jar, push firmly into the centre of the pastry. This should raise the wall sides up and outwards, ready for shaping.

Pork pies should be kept in the refrigerator and eaten within 3 days of opening, and within the 'use by date'. This is the case for home made pies as well. What is this? When deciding whether to freeze your pork pie, remember it is always best to freeze it as soon as possible after making or purchase.

Pre-heat the oven to 180 ºC / 350ºF / Gas Mark 4. Place pies on a baking tray and cover with foil, this stops the pie tops from burning. Place in the oven for 20 minutes. Remove the foil and return to the oven for around 5 minutes ensuring the pies are piping hot.

However, they can come as small as three inches and as large as 12 inches. Standard recipes usually call for an 8- to 10-inch pie dish, so nine inches is sort of the gold standard if you want to just own one.

Traditionally, the jelly is made using a pig's trotter, and there is a recipe for this on page 98 of the book, but if you are short of time you can make the simple version below. In most traditional recipes the pastry is also hand-raised, which means that it is shaped without the help of a mould.

Leeson Family Butchers' Melton Mowbray pork pies are amongst the best in the world. Show Champion 2018, Gold award winner 2019, Show Champion (pork pie category) 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Calling all Dolly Parton fans! This dessert legendary holiday walnut pie is a delicious and easy play on a pecan pie using walnuts instead of pecans. A bit of sugar, corn syrup, and melted butter comes together as a smooth, subtle filling. Save the recipe for Thanksgiving, we are sure you'll enjoy it.

Can you eat a pork pie 2 days out of date? ›

A use-by date on food is about safety. This is the most important date to remember. Never eat food after the use-by date, even if it looks and smells ok, as it could make you very ill. You can eat food until midnight on the use-by date shown on a product, but not after, unless the food has been cooked or frozen.

That aside, while a pork pie should definitely be served at room temperature rather than fridge-cold, so that its flavours can sing, there seems something deeply incongruent about hot pork pie.

warm would be greasy and unpleasant because the fat in the pork would melt and make the meat soft and mushy. Cold pork pie is utterly delicious - the meat is nice and firm. I love a nice Melton Mowbray pork pie with HP sauce!

If You Need To Reheat. Please don't microwave (it wrecks the pastry). Pop into an oven at 180c, pies need to be reheated to an internal temperature of 72c+. Weird one but try before you berate me, heat Heinz tomato sauce (with a good grind of salt) until piping hot.

An hour before eating your pork pie, take it out of the fridge, remove the paper thus allowing the flavours to develop. Freezing: Keep the pork pie wrapped in its parchment paper, then wrap in tinfoil. Place the wrapped pie in a polythene freezer bag and place in the freezer. Will store for up to 3 months.

WIDTH. Pie pans range from 8-12 inches in width. However, 11 inches and larger tend to upset the balance between crust and filling so that pies come out over-filled and undercooked. A standard recipe, without having to adjust sizes or baking time, is usually calibrated for a 9.5″ pan.

The dough should be 1/8" thick and 1" wider than the pie plate. Here's a pro tip on measuring the dough's thickness: stack two quarters next to the dough. That heigh is roughly equivalent to 1/8 of an inch, the Epi Test Kitchen's recommended thickness for pie dough.

Pie pans come in a variety of sizes, from 3" to 12" diameter, so there is a pan for every baking and dessert application, from individual tart pans to the largest 12" pan.

The diameter of the gage is 3/4 to 1 inch. The divisions between the low carbon steel pie sections are to be no greater than 1/32 inch. The sections are furnace brazed and copper plated. The gage is placed on the test piece copper side up and the test piece is magnetized.