From Roger Plenty
Feedback was puzzled by the term “hand-raised” appearing on a shop sign advertising pork pies (31 March). The notes to P. G. Wodehouse’s novel Sunset at Blandings include a description from Fortnum & Mason, London purveyors of fine food, to the effect that “a raised pie is made as follows: pastry… is moulded round, or raised up, a wooden mould. The mould is removed and the pastry filled with meat… and the contents closed over with pastry again.” So it’s not the pork that’s hand-raised, it’s the pie.
Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK
