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- From: loosemor@esunix (Sandra Loosemore)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Pasties from the Upper Peninsula
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- Date: 11 Jul 86 03:35:19 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE MEAT-PIE-2 M "18 May 86" 1986
- .RZ "UPPER MICHIGAN PASTIES" "Cornish-style meat pies from the UP"
- The pasty (\fIPAH-stee\fR) is a kind of English meat pie. It was brought to
- the Upper Peninsula of Michigan by Cornish miners in the mid-nineteenth
- century. The UP version differs slightly from the original Cornish
- pasty in that it has more vegetables and less meat and crust.
- .PP
- You can eat pasties hot, warm, or cold. If you wrap them in aluminum
- foil when they come out of the oven, they'll keep warm for hours. Or, you
- can refrigerate/freeze them and reheat them later. (Maybe the original
- ``fast food''?)
- .PP
- Most people who live in the UP don't bother to make their own pasties;
- they buy them from bakeries and pasty shops (which are as common as
- hamburger joints are in other parts of the country). As a former resident,
- though, sometimes I get homesick and resort to making them myself.
- This is the recipe my mother sent me.
- .IH "Serves 4"
- .SH CRUST
- .IG "2 cups" "flour" "200 g"
- .IG "\(12 cup" "shortening" "100 g"
- .IG "\(14 cup" "lard" "50 g"
- .IG "\(14 cup" "scraped suet" "50 g"
- .IG "" "water"
- .SH FILLING
- .IG "1\(14 lbs" "coarsely ground beef" "600 g"
- .IG "4" "medium potatoes,"
- diced
- .IG "1" "large onion,"
- chopped
- .IG "\(14 cup" "rutabaga" "50 g"
- (swede), diced
- .IG "1" "carrot,"
- diced
- .IG "" "salt and pepper"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Put the flour in a bowl and cut in the shortening, lard, and suet.
- Add just enough water to make a soft dough.
- .SK 2
- Divide the dough into four parts and roll out each piece into a
- circle about the size of a dinner plate.
- .SK 3
- Crumble the meat into a bowl and stir in the potatoes, onion, rutabaga,
- and carrot.
- .SK 4
- Divide the mixture into four parts, putting some on one side
- of each piece of dough. Sprinkle generously with salt and pepper.
- .SK 5
- Fold the pastry over the filling to make half-moon shaped pies. Seal
- the edges and cut a couple of small slits on the top.
- .SK 6
- Bake on a cookie sheet at
- .TE 375 190
- for 30 to 35 minutes, then reduce heat to
- .TE 350 175
- and bake 15 more minutes.
- .NX
- These have a
- high cholesterol content. I've tried using an ordinary vegetable-shortening
- pie crust, but it invariably turns out too dry and crumbly to hold
- together. (Authentic UP pasties have a crust that's thin, moist, and
- somewhat chewy, not a flaky crust.) If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to
- hear about them.
- You can also cook the filling by itself in a casserole dish if you're feeling
- lazy about making the crust.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate.
- .I Time:
- 30 minutes preparation, 1 hour cooking and cooling.
- .I Precision:
- measure the crust ingredients.
- .WR
- Sandra Loosemore
- Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation, Salt Lake City
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