French Meat Pies

Our 100 year tradition continues! 

Our Lady of Lourdes began serving French Meat Pies in the late 1800's at its traditional holiday dinners at the church. Many of the French Canadian parishioners also prepared the "tourtieres" for their own families to serve at Christmas and New Year's Day.  Over the years at Our Lady of Lourdes, people would prepare and serve their meat pies at various parish events.  The women who cooked for funerals, in particular, would have different recipes, so they worked through to create a consensus in order to find the best one, which is now the recipe for the parish.
 
The current ingredients for the pies consist of ground pork tenderloin, bread crumbs, onions and "secret spices". The traditional French Meat Pie Dinners stopped in the 1980's.  The parish continues to make the pies to support the church.  The pies can be purchased during Tuesdays through Fridays at the Parish Office between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm.
 
The cost of a pie is $30.00 and each one serves 6-8, depending on the size of the portion. 

After its construction in the 1850s, the Catholic French Canadian community purchased the building in 1877. With them came their culinary traditions, including French meat pies (les tourtières), which quickly became an essential component of church holiday dinners and events. After the dinners ended in the 1980s, the pies remained a staple at fundraisers and hunger relief events...