Don’t be daunted by the idea of using hot water crust pastry – the pie is moulded in a tin, which makes it very easy to put together ... the pie later. First make the filling.

Making a pork pie in a loaf tin is so much easier than using the hand-raised technique. Serve in slices at picnics and barbecues. For this recipe you will need a 900g/2lb loaf tin. Grease a 900g ...

This pie looks difficult but needs only about 45 minutes of active work – much of the time it takes to make is taken up with letting the dough rest in the fridge to firm up. Commercial puff ...

Hot water pastry is fun to make — warm, pliable and easy to work with. It's what you'll find in the traditional English Melton Mowbray pork pie, which is baked without a supporting tin.

Cookbook author Robin Miller shares her go-to recipe for meltingly tender, Dutch oven pulled pork and seven-ingredient barbecue sauce. How to make it.