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> 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.

This is what we know as Pork Pie:

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/t...pork-pies.html



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