Impromptu trip to Melton Mowbray? What an opportunity for scoffage!

Melton Mowbray is a town in Leicestershire, England, 19 miles (31 km) north-east of Leicester, and 20 miles (32 km) south-east of Nottingham. It lies on the River Eye, known below Melton as the Wreake. The town population of 27,158 in the 2011 census was estimated at 27,670 in 2019. The town is sometimes promoted as Britain's "Rural Capital of Food". Melton's culinary specialities are Stilton cheese and the Melton Mowbray pork pie. It is also the location of one of six licensed makers of Stilton itself.

Melton Mowbray pork pies are made by a specific "hand-raising" process and recipe. On 4 April 2008 the European Union awarded the Melton Mowbray pork pie Protected Geographical Indication status, after a long-standing application made by the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association. Only pies made in a designated zone round Melton using uncured pork may bear the Melton Mowbray name. The pork was originally a by-product of cheese making as the whey was fed to pigs.

Posted By: Old Git, Jun 9, 12:01:08