Pastys

Lerxst

Lerxst

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No, not the ones that goes on strippers nipples :wink:

The Cornish Pasty: ground meat and root vegies in a handy pastry crust. The original hot pocket beloved by Yoopers today.


I've adapted the recipe found here:
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/vup/pasty/recipes.htm

pastry dough:
~4 cups of flour
1 & 3/4 sticks of butter (I'll frequently sub vegetable shortening for a portion of the butter)
1.5 tsp salt

Filling:
1# ground beef
1# gound pork
1 onion, chopped
1 rutabaga, chopped
Salt, pepper, season to taste

The one's I'm making today have some garlic and thyme too

You can follow the specifics on how to mix up the dough and the rest from the linked page. I like to divide the dough into 8 equal portions so I'm always able to wrap my filling adequately.

Pics when they come out of the 350 degree oven
 
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most of the traditional ones I see are semi circles...I like to free form them
 
Man they're awesome; a flaky crusted meat pie. As a child in a small town in southwest WI, everytime somebody died, or the church needed to raise money--pasty supper! (It's pronounced pass-tee). We didn't use ground meat though. It was more like a beef stew burrito.
 
BoomBoomBigelow said:
Man they're awesome; a flaky crusted meat pie. As a child in a small town in southwest WI, everytime somebody died, or the church needed to raise money--pasty supper! (It's pronounced pass-tee). We didn't use ground meat though. It was more like a beef stew burrito.
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What would they use? I'd imagine it wasn't anything cheap and tough since you don't cook it long enough to tenderize it unless it was braised ahead of time.
 
Lerxst said:
What would they use? I'd imagine it wasn't anything cheap and tough since you don't cook it long enough to tenderize it unless it was braised ahead of time.
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Probably the case. I haven't had one in decades, and back then the wimerns did all the cooking indoors.
 
Lerxst said:
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most of the traditional ones I see are semi circles...I like to free form them
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I'm not a huge fan of Cornish pasties but here's a little bit of JBJ's generally useless but interesting trivia for you:

Cornish parties are as you said traditionaly a semi circle:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images...2011/2/23/1298453689976/Cornish-pasty-007.jpg

The reason they are this strange shape is that they were generally eaten by Cornish miners who needed something they could eat quickl;y but had plenty of protein and fat in it to give them energy for their long, hard shifts.

The semi circle shape is so the miners could hold the outside crust with their dirty fingers and eat the meat filled portion of the pasty then throw away the outside (caked in grime and coal) crust.

Trut. :thu:
 
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