Do you heat up pork pies?

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I’ve never heated one in my life, but I’m discovering some people bake the ones you buy in the supermarket and then serve them warm / hot, maybe with peas?

if you would be so kind as to let me know where you’re from, I want to know if it’s a geographic thing!!

Aah, now you're talking. Hot Scotch eggs are the bees knees.

I only like Scotch eggs with the runny centres. I don't like the ones that are solid. The ones with the runny centres have to be eaten hot - I wouldn't dream of eating it cold. DP tried eating it cold (he normally has the solid Scotch eggs) and he said it was like eating an egg full of snot 😂

Honestly delicious warm. I have one for lunch sometimes.

Pork pies though are strictly only to be eaten cold. Even the (bloody expensive) gourmet ones that I buy at Christmas. They're perfect to accompany leftover turkey and some bubble and squeak.

I think the whole point of the pork pie is the jelly is poured in after the pie is cooked, then left to set. Never had a heated up pork pie, but love pork pie mash, peas and Branston. Yum.

I would not heat up a quality fresh butchers pie my local ones have lots of jelly lovely meat filling and pie crust ,but i do occasionally heat up the supermarket offerings that are chilled
with a softer pie crust and less jelly great as a quick winter meal with mushy peas and mint sauce or baked beens ,a guilty comfort food

Forgot to add from Yorkshire ,to those of u that save you're quality butchers pie to heat up i salute your will power ,mine are quickly snaffled (eaten)😊

Never had one. Have seen them in supermarkets before though. I'm originally from UK but now live in New Zealand.

No!

Yorkshire person here. It’s what we had last night, bought from the butchers warm, yesterday morning, left to cool then heated quickly in the microwave served with mushy peas and mint sauce delicious.

Someone asked why this is a thread, I think the thread speaks for itself. It’s in equal measure to horrify people and educate them about different local cuisines! Perhaps the Southerners will try the bonfire dinner delights and we will see a shift of the cuisine and new families having new traditions?

Friend told me she bought a really nice pork pie from butchers for our dinner - Sheffield way. As a southerner I was shocked when it was served piping hot ! That crisp pastry, that firm meat - all soft and floppy ! Seemed to lose all its flavour too. What a waste of an expensive pie! I'm still not over the shock and it was over a year ago.

Ugh, no. I once had some American tourists seek my advice on what they should get from a market stall and then had to explain that no, pork pies are eaten cold and the stall wouldn't heat them up (they were quite insistent that they should if asked). But I never thought the idea would even occur to a Brit.

Yes. I eat them warm with mushy peas - Yorkshire.

I once saw DHs aunt microwave a pork pie and eat it hot like a meat and potato pie with chips. It was disturbing on many levels.

Aunt is from Lancaster, I am from near Birmingham.

We warm ours up in the oven and the pastry remains crisp, then they can stay there keeping warm. Microwaved pastry is an abomination.

But if people aren't having pie and peas on bonfire night, what are they having?

Also yes from me. North Yorkshire.

Pie and peas on Bonfire Night growing up. As other PPs said, served hot with mushy peas and mint sauce. Always bought from local famous pie shop.

i still don’t know why mint sauce when it is pork but hey it works. Weirdly delicious. I sometimes recreate it with a supermarket pork pie and a tin of bachelor’s mushy peas (and tablespoons of mint sauce).

i don’t really like them cold.

Having grown up not too far from Melton Mowbray my cultural roots were twitching painfully at the thought of a hot pork pie!

And I am giving a hard stare and side eye to all the Yorkshire folk playing fast and loose with Leicestershire’s finest! God save us from Yorkshire Wrath if we mess about with Yorkshire Pudding or Parkin!

But to play devils advocate, there’s not that much difference between a sausage roll* and a pork pie if you tip it on its side , so….

*A proper sausage roll with short pastry, not puff.

People of Yorkshire please desist - signed the entire population of Melton Mowbray and the surrounding villages.

Whilst I’m at it could everybody please note that the company that makes Elderflower cordial (Belvoir Farm) is pronounced Beaver and not Belle Voir

I really do think a nice ploughman’s lunch with Melton Mowbray pork pies and sweet piccalilli is lovely

Not always, but if I was serving with peas I definitely would. The pork pies we get are from the butcher round the corner and are usually not long out of the oven. They’re definitely nicer hot or at room temp - ones straight from the fridge are rubbish.

Im in the north.

Taylors butchers in Darlington used to have a queue on a Saturday for its pork pies, all hot and fresh from the oven, loved them warm by the time we got them home often served with pease pudding and tomatoes.

Absolutely not.

This is definitely a thing in my area of Yorkshire too. ‘Pie and pea night’ fundraisers for local charities/ schools/ church etc are well attended.

I can’t think of anything worse tbh but I support the local traditions.

Not unless it's fresh from the oven at the butcher's, which is one of the nicest things in the world.

Oooh, no. Pork pies are to eat cold on a hot summers day, preferably as part of an old fashioned picnic with hard boiled eggs!

It's a Yorkshire thing with pies from the local butcher, so the residents of Melton Mowbray can sleep easy.There's a chapter about hot pies in Pete Brown's "Pie Fidelity". How about this, I recently had a warm Scotch Egg, soft boiled egg wrapped in haggis, it was divine,

Never heard of it and I’d be worried about the food safety implications tbh. I’m from the Black Country.