Cornish Pasties Anyone???

[grygrrl]

Hi All:

Was wondering if anyone has a recipe for Cornish Pasties...looked in Joy of Cooking and NY Times cookbook Even willing to give up my killer biscotti recipe for it and will include tips for too dry/too moist.

Thanks,

Sam/grygrrl

[Morrigan Lynnea]

Here is the site I got my pasty recipies from. I've only tried the veggie versions, but I've made the steak one for my omnivore friends and got rave reviews. The cornish one is GREAT!!! Hope it works for you!


[url]http://www.hu.mtu.edu/vup/pasty/recipes.htm

[Margaret]

Pasties! Hi, I'm Maggie and I am from the Upper Penninsula of Michigan (orgianally) where local churches still have pasty sales every Tuesday.

Here's my dad's receipe which is totally one of the 'I never measured the stuff' type reciepes, so fiddle with the amounts until you are happy with them. The dough is a pie crust receipe, so that's the texture you are aiming for...

Filling:
Take a one pound pork steak and slice it up fine. Combine that with one half pound of ground beef and one half pound of ground pork (the 'chunker' the grind, the better). Chop up one cup of onion and add it to the bowl. Season with salt and pepper and a pinch or two of sage. Mix and set aside. (some people also add carrots and rutebegas to the filling as well, we just never have in our area)

Dough:
21/2 C. flour, 1 tsp of salt, 1 rounded C. Crisco shortening, 4 TBS cold water.

Cut flour and shortening together, add salt. Slowly add water - use more or less depending on the stickiness of the dough.

Roll out dough on floured surface into a round shape. Fill with about 1/2 cup of the filling. Bake at 325 for 30 min.

[Miatawolf]

Ummm that sounds good I will have to try it this week.

[Tapestry MacGillicuddly]

I'd never had a pasty til I lived in Montana. They have a lot of mines there and pasties are sold in bakeries and in the freezer case at the supermarket. I'm still kicking myself for not stopping at the one bakery that everyone recommended for their pasties. People in Dillon, which is 70 miles south of Butte, would drive north, do their shopping and their last stop would be at the bakery to bring back pasties for supper. Beef or chicken mainly, I don't remember any lamb or veal. And that being beef country, you know beef was a top seller.

[Jules]

i had never heard of them till i moved to Toledo. My husband told me about them (as he and his family lived in the UP for a short period of time. I found them frozen in Meijers. THough I am sure not as tasty as homemade, still a pretty good substitute for someone who had no idea how to make em.
Maggie gonna have to give your da's recipe a try and surprise dear husband.

[Margaret]

Maggie gonna have to give your da's recipe a try and surprise dear husband.



Hope you enjoy them!! :D

[Emyrldlady]

I've had pasties all my life. I grew up in a predominately Irish/Scot/Welsh area. However I saw on the food network last week a show on hand held food, and what was really cool, that I never had, was the cook put jam in one corner of the pastie and baked it in, therefore having dinner and dessert in the same handful!

[Jules]

ooooooooooooooooooooooo

:yum:

Just what this wench needs!!! Dinner and desert, will have to look this how to up!