I make my pork pie like the oldsters in my family did. Make mashed potatoes out of 5 or 6 good sized potatoes using milk and butter. Lightly brown one pound of ground pork with one diced onion, drain any fat. Mix the pork with the mashed potatoes, add 2 or 3 tbs. of Bell's Poultry Seasoning, salt and pepper. Mix thoroughly by hand, or electric mixer. Bottom and top crust made anyway you want. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes till crust is brown. Freezes well. I make a dozen of these every year for my church's fundraiser, they always sell out. No one else in my church is French, so they don't compare them to what their grandmothers used to make. No two French Canadians make tourtière or gorton the same way.

My family didn't use cloves or other sweet spices in pork pie, just poultry seasoning. When we make gorton ( pork spread ), we use cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg.