Pasties

"My mum made the best pasties on earth, but she's gone so I had to make them today from my memories. Pasties were a food we ate when we were poor, so there wasn't much meat in them compared to veg. Swede turnip is very important in pasties. Mum made her own pastry with dripping, but I don't save dripping!"
 
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Ready In:
1hr 15mins
Ingredients:
12
Yields:
5 Pasties

ingredients

  • 1 kg shortcrust pastry, 5 sheets
  • Filling

  • 300 g ground beef
  • 3 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into tiny (pea sized)
  • 1 medium carrot, peeled and grated
  • 1 small swede, peeled and grated
  • 1 medium onion, very finely diced
  • 2 tablespoons peas
  • 2 teaspoons beef stock powder
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • black pepper, lots of black pepper
  • Glaze

  • 1 egg, lightly beaten with
  • 2 tablespoons milk
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directions

  • Preheat oven to 160c for a fan forced oven or 180c for non fan forced.
  • Seperate pastry sheets and defrost. Using the largest dinner plate that will fit on the pastry square, cut circles.
  • Mix filling ingredients together and divide into 5.
  • Place 1/5th of the mixture along the centre of a pastry circle, then moisten edges with water and bring together crimping to seal.
  • Repeat with remaining 4 circles of pastry.
  • Place on a baking tray and brush with the glaze; cut a small hole in pastry to allow steam to escape.
  • Cook in preheated oven for 45 minutes or until golden.

Questions & Replies

  1. Is Beef Stock Powder the same as a beef bouillon cube?
     
  2. Do you precook the filling ?
     
  3. What is a "swede"?
     
  4. What is shortcrust pastry and where can it be found? Diane
     
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Reviews

  1. Sounds good but I think the Swedes might get a little put out if I start kidnapping their babies and putting them in pasties LOL!
     
  2. As a certified Yooper: This is not a Michigan Pastie. Never in my life and many pasties eaten did I ever see peas in one. I've also never had to put beef stock in mine, but YMMV. For the people asking, a 'swede' is the same thing as a rutabaga, but outside of MI I've only heard UK people call it that (there's a good deal of Cornish culture near my hometown, so it's not an uncommon name).
     
  3. Pasties are definitely the food of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, but you'll NEVER find peas or carrots in Yooper pasties -- traditional beef, rutabaga (swede), potatoes and onion, salt and pepper, dotted with butter, wrapped in flaky Crisco or lard pastry. Nothing better, and hold the gravy!
     
  4. This recpie isn't from Michigan. Australia!?
     
  5. This is surely not a U.P. Michigan Pasty !! A Yooper Pasty has Beef and Pork or all Beef,Onions,Potatoes,Carrots, and Rutabaga's in them ...Never pea's !! But...to each is own .
     
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Tweaks

  1. Used packet puff pastry
     
  2. Parsnips instead of swede and home made reduced fat shortcrust and used pork as housemate doesn't eat beef.
     
  3. Wow..Much better than any pastie you could buy in a bakery ....and so easy! Great flavour and texture. DH and I enjoyed for old time sake, for dinner tonight. I followed the recipe, except for I didnt have any beef stock powder, so I used worchester sauce instead. I made large and small pasties, mainly because I wanted to try some small ones for a party and freeze them first beforehand to see how they will turn out. Wonderful recipe Jan, Thank You so much this is such an easy and simple recipe with store bought pastry and the outcome was exceptional!. Just like your sausage rolls, I can freeze these for the family to have at any time, and also for any of the kids unexpected drop ins.....lol I will be making these again for sure .
     

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