On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 12:42:14 -0700 (PDT), Silvar Beitel
> wrote:

>On Saturday, September 26, 2020 at 3:20:12 PM UTC-4, Graham wrote:
>> On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 07:25:49 -0700 (PDT), Silvar Beitel
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Butternut Squash Pasties 9/24. Made 150% of this recipe:
>> ><http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-butternut-squash-sage-a-98771>
>> >Was very popular with the family. Plus, I think I've gotten pastry down cold (note how nice and flaky it is in the photo). My crimping technique needs work though.
>> >
>> The crimping looks OK to me!
>
>Well, OK, thanks! I can do stylish crimpings on dish pies, just don't have the knack for hand pies (yet).
>
>> BTW, the "a" in pasties is short, as in....."as".
>
>Ohhh, I do know. My Yooper[1] sister-in-law used to make "standard" meat pasties by the basket-full.
>
>[1] From the Upper Peninsula of Michigan state, US. Many (like her) are Cornish descendants and have almost equally funky accents. :-)

I've been tuning in to podcasts from the local BBC station in the UK
county from where I originate. Every Friday, they have a telephone
conversation with a guy who has a strong rural accent and peppers his
speech with the dialect with which I'm familiar. Quite nostalgic:-)