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Default What is Pasty Meat?

On Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:16:35 -0700, US Janet >
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>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. You’ll 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 “prayer”
>>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


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