On 2/9/2021 3:16 PM, US Janet wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:04:10 -0500, Boron Elgar
> > wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:37:29 -0700, US Janet >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> In reference to Cornish Pasties?
>>> Inquiring minds want to know
>>> Janet US
>>
>> Steak of some sort.
>>
>> This is the recipe I have settled on over the years and I think makes
>> the yummiest pasties..
>>
>> https://joepastry.com/2009/top_crimped_pasty_recipe/
>>
>> 12 ounces all-purpose (AP) flour
>> 1 teaspoon salt
>> 3 ounces lard (or shortening if you prefer), cold and in pieces
>> 3 ounces butter, cold and in pieces
>> 4 ounces cool water
>>
>> Preheat your oven to 400. Whisk together flour and salt. Add the fat
>> and work it in with your fingers until you get than corn meal
>> consistency everyone always talks about. Add your water and work it in
>> gently by hand until a dough is formed. Leave to sit at room
>> temperature while you prepare your filling ingredients. Youll need:
>>
>> 12 ounces bottom round or stew meant, cubed small
>> 2 leeks, white ends only, trimmed, split and sliced
>> 1 medium yellow turnip (rutabaga), cubed small
>> 1 russet potato, sliced thin
>> salt an pepper to taste
>>
>> Egg wash:
>>
>> 1 egg beaten with 1 tablespoon milk
>>
>> Begin by cutting the dough into four roughly 5 ounce pieces. Roll each
>> into a ball. To make pasties, select a ball and roll it out to a
>> roughly 10" circle. Lay in the ingredients like you would for the
>> side-crimped pasty, making an oblong heap down the center of each
>> dough circle. Remember to salt and pepper each layer of ingredients as
>> you lay them in. Start with the sliced potatoes, then the turnips,
>> beef and finally the leeks.
>>
>> Moisten the outer edge of the dough with water, slip your hands under
>> the sides of the circle and bring them together in a €œprayer€�
>> position, thus enclosing the ingredients. Squeeze the moistened edges
>> together to form a ridge down the center of the pie, and crimp. Poke a
>> few steam holes in the top of the pasty with a fork, and paint the pie
>> with egg wash. Bake at 400 for twenty minutes, then lower heat to 350
>> and bake and additional 20-30 minutes until golden.
>>
>> Makes four meal-sized pasties.
>
> thank you for the recipe, Boron.
> Janet US
>


Yes, thank you for this recipe.

Please explain the "prayer position" when folding. Is this different
than just folding over like other recipes I have seen? Is the seam on
top, not a side? What is the difference in baked result?