Recipe No.5 - Somerset Pork and Apple Pie

I'm not a big fan of pies, mainly because I don't particularly like savoury pastry - However give me a danish pastry any day! So for the first time I deviated SHOCK HORROR! from the recipe. Not drastically but rather than line the dish with the pastry I just put on a lid purely because as afore mentioned savoury pastry doesn't do it for me. But because this recipe wasn't printed with a picture next to it there wasn't anything to compare it too so i'm not put to shame by a perfect image in the background!
That's another thing that often means I don't cook many recipes from a recipe book; No picture means a lack of inspiration.

Thankfully this recipe uses rough puff instead of traditional puff pastry so for a first attempt at least it was the simpler version. It takes only an hour and a half from start to finish however it came quite dense although the flavour was nice. The filling made from pork, onion, apples, celery and a can of cider. At first the smell of the cider wasn't very nice (enhanced by the fact I don't like cider - Sorry if you're starting to question why I chose to make this!) but as it cooked it did improve! The pork was so tender and literally fell apart as did the apples forming a pleasantly sweet and thick sauce.

Some final touches (to compensate for the simple alternative of a pastry lid) and an egg wash and it was ready for the oven!

After 40 minutes this is what came out...

The filling doesn't look that appetising but I think that happens quite often with pies (kidding myself?).

It was really nice with mash and peas and there were clean plates all round so no complaints from the rest of the family!