Thank you Faith C and lucretia borgia for your recipes, they sound like the
ones I'm after from way down under1
Appreciate this so much, Cheers Peter (Potaroo)



"Faith C" > wrote in message
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> I couldn't find a pasty recipe from Australia, but this one is supposed
> to be "traditional" from Cornwall. I got it many years ago from an
> elderly lady whose father was from Cornwall, and worked as a miner in
> Colorado.
>
> Cornish Pasties
>
> Dough
> 4 Cups unsifted flour
> 2 teaspoons salt
> 3/4 pound lard, chilled and cut into pea sized bits
> 10-12 Tablespoons ice water
>
> Traditional filling
>
> 2 pounds skirt steak, or lean top round, sliced thin
> 1 1/2 cups potatoes, sliced thin
> 1 1/2 cups rutabagas* or turnips, sliced thin
> 1 1/2 cups onions, sliced thin
> 1/4 cup Parsley, chopped coarsely
> 1 Tablespoon salt
> 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
>
> With hands, mix flour, salt and lard into a coarse meal consistency.
> Mix in about 10 tablespoons of the ice water and gather into a ball. If
> it is too crumbly to gather, add water 1 teaspoon at a time, until it
> forms a good ball when gathered. Divide it into 6 parts and refrigerate
> at least 1 hour, overnight is better.
> Remove dough balls from refrigerator and roll them into circles about 8
> 1/2 to 9 inches across and about 1/4 inch thick.
> Divide the filling into 6 parts and place in layers in the center of
> the circles, starting with the meat. (Filling may be diced and mixed
> together, if desired, instead of sliced.) Put a small chunk of butter on
> the filling. Dampen the edges of the pastry with water, and fold the
> edges up to make a seam on top. Press the edges together with the
> fingers and crimp to seal.
> Make 2 or 3 ventilation slits in the top of the pasty. Carefully pour a
> teaspoon or so of water into the pasty through the ventilation slits.
> Brush with milk or egg if you want a glaze, and bake at 450 degrees
> until the pasty is pale brown, then reduce the heat to 350 degrees for
> about 40 minutes. Makes 6 pasties
> *Rutabagas are also known as swedes or yellow turnips.
>
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