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On 10/7/2020 4:43 PM, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 13:01:02 -0700 (PDT), Silvar Beitel
> > wrote:
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>> I finally got around to making traditional Cornish/UP pasties yesterday.
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>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/4ZvZYRTSLy4t1ncJ6
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>> Sorry, no final photo of the cooked insides; the one I didn't freeze disappeared before I remembered to take a picture. :-)
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>> 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.

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> It's hardly a traditional US dish, it's Cornish as in UK and
> contained only meat, onion and potato.
>

Picking at nits. UP means "Upper Pennisula", not a typo for UK. Most
"traditional" food in the US is a result of immigration; I suspect the
recipe originated with immigrants froom Cornwall and were adapted over
the course of time.

Jill