On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 02:48:01 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 4:43:38 PM UTC-4, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>> On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 13:01:02 -0700 (PDT), Silvar Beitel
>> > wrote:
>> >I finally got around to making traditional Cornish/UP pasties yesterday.
>> >
>> >https://photos.app.goo.gl/4ZvZYRTSLy4t1ncJ6
>> >
>> >Sorry, no final photo of the cooked insides; the one I didn't freeze disappeared before I remembered to take a picture. :-)
>> >
>> >Recipe from the Better Homes and Gardens Heritage of America Cookbook, which is worth having (used, old, cheap!) for its discussions of American foodways and lots of "classic" recipes.
>> It's hardly a traditional US dish, it's Cornish as in UK and
>> contained only meat, onion and potato.
>
>How would you know what's traditional in the U.S.? Michigan's Upper Peninsula
>had a bunch of Cornish miners come in to mine the copper and their pasties became
>part of the overall culture. Yes, Cornish. But also American.

It just doesn't originate from America. All y'all had a late start so
when something's traditionally American, it may have been
traditionally European for centuries first. Like your American as
apple pie isn't an American invention either

Stick to stuff with corn.