My mother didn't boil the ground pork. She would fry the pork and minced onion together and season it with allspice and salt and pepper. She added boiled and mashed potatoes for the meat pies for revillion (after midnight mass because Christmas Eve was a day of abstinence) or added a sleeve of crushed saltines to the meat filling and used it to stuff the Thanksgiving turkey. We always eat the meat pies with sweet gherkins. Good tip, about the sweet gherkins - I'll have to try that next time, thanks! PJH

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