100-year-old French Canadian Meat Pie Recipe - Tourtiere (video) [View all]

This is an old recipe! This is the tourtière recipe my mom got from my dad's mom, and dates back to sometime in the early 20th century. This is a classic French Canadian dish from that era of a pork pie with potato and breadcrumbs. Like a lot of recipes of its time, it's simple, hearty food, but we've made a couple of changes to the original episode to bump the flavour up a little. In the original recipe, the ground pork was just boiled with the potatoes, and not cooked at all before. We gave it just a little bit of browning for some extra flavour. We also replaced the plain sugar with maple syrup and added some sage. We also blitzed up a dried pepper pod to add a little kick, but we didn't include that in the video.

You can spice this up in lots of different ways. This is a very basic recipe with minimal flavouring. We thought the sage would go nicely with the pork (it did) and that the maple syrup would add a little bit of interest to it (it also did). You can use your favourite pie crust recipe for the crust (lard would be more traditional in this recipe), and you can change the flavour profile however you'd prefer to. After boiling with the potatoes and breadcrumbs, this recipe really gets a similar texture to a pot pie.

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