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Having sold their Walkers crisps business in 1971 to US-based Standard Brands, their pie-making business was now the largest distributor of Melton Mowbray pork pies. This business was added to in 1992 after the purchase of the fire-destroyed Melton Mowbray based pie maker Dickinson & Morris, which was refurbished in a traditional style.
The name Melton Mowbray can now only be applied to uncured pork-filled pies cooked without supporting hoops and made within an area around the town bounded by the M1, A45, A605, A1 and A52 but including Grantham, Northampton, Nottingham and Stamford, a total of approximately 1,800 square miles (4,700 square kilometres).
Only pies made in a designated zone round Melton using uncured pork may bear the Melton Mowbray name. [16] The pork was originally a by-product of cheese making as the whey was fed to pigs. Melton Mowbray is home to Melton cloth, a tightly woven fabric first mentioned in 1823, heavily milled with a nap raised to a short, dense non-lustrous pile.
Bought by private equity firm Vision Capital in 2007, [4] with European Union legislation focusing on the need to produce Melton Mowbray Pork Pies within a defined distance of Melton Mowbray, the company chose to close the Trowbridge plant and invest £12 million into the Nottingham plant to increase Melton Mowbray pie production. [5]
The uncured meat of a Melton pie is grey in colour when cooked and the meat is chopped, rather than minced. As the pies are baked free-standing, the sides bow outwards, rather than being vertical as with mould-baked pies. Melton Mowbray pork pies are served at room temperature, [9] unlike pork pies in Yorkshire which may be served hot.
With European Union legislation requiring Melton Mowbray pork pies to be produced within a defined distance of Melton Mowbray, the company chose to close the Trowbridge plant with the loss of 400 jobs, and invest £12 million into the Nottingham plant to increase Melton Mowbray pie production. [5]
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The company was famous for their Melton Mowbray pork pies which were made to a secret recipe. The product range was varied which resulted in producing other baked delicatessen products for supermarkets; chicken & ham pies, pork gala, turkey & stuffing [5] as well as puff pastry; steak & kidney pies, minced beef, Cornish Pasties and fruit pies.