Spiced Pork and Rhubarb Pie aka Maltkens Pie Recipe
"It always an exciting time when I am asked to design a new recipe. The brief for this recipe was for the delightful market town of Malton in North Yorkshire. Malton is becoming known as a foodie destination because of the lovely food shops, cafes, bakeries, pubs and restaurants and annual Food Lover's Festival. . What Malton does not have is an identifiable food; Cornwall has its pasties, Bakewell its tarts ..... so it was decided to make a pie, in fact, a pork pie but not a traditional one which is a mixture of pork cooked inside a crisp hot-water pastry and filled with a meat jelly. Instead, this Spicy Braised Pork and Rhubarb Pie is based on loosely on that pie but differs in that the pork is long, slow braised beforehand and then pulled apart, seasoned and placed in the pie, topped with the cooked rhubarb and the sauce. Do not be put off by the length of this recipe, or the making of the pastry cases, it is actually quite straightforward. The pastry can me made while the pork is cooling. And, if you so wish, cook the pork the day before, even better...."