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| Assembling the pasties tomorrow (Friday) | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 27 2011, 07:41 PM (411 Views) | |
| brenda | Oct 27 2011, 07:41 PM Post #1 |
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four pounds ground beef, very lean half pound ground pork one very large rutabaga 8 or 9 potatoes 10 - 12 carrots 3 large onions 2 cups beef broth pepper lots of herbs and spices The filling is all cooked and in the fridge. Tomorrow I'll make the dough for the pastry crust. How many pasties will this filling make? Not sure. Maybe 40? I'll find out tomorrow. |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 27 2011, 07:46 PM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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You are the best, Brenda. The best. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| jodi | Oct 27 2011, 07:56 PM Post #3 |
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Fulla-Carp
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I love pasties. But I have yet to manage to make a crust that doesn't kind of fall apart when I wrap them up and cook them. They end up leaking all over the place. Yummy, but messy. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Too much fat, maybe. |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 27 2011, 07:58 PM Post #4 |
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Betcha Brenda can fix. |
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| apple | Oct 28 2011, 04:17 AM Post #5 |
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i actually have made them, and you want to kind of knead the dough a bit overmuch to develop the gluten.. i don't have a recipe but it does have less fat and a splash of milk. Rutabagas are God's best vegetable EVER! I don't put potatoes in mine at all.. just onions, rutabaga, carrots. Minnesota recipes are the best. I wonder where my Minneapolis Junior League cookbook is? We call them pork pastries .. pasties sound like underpants or something. Edited by apple, Oct 28 2011, 04:26 AM.
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| Jolly | Oct 28 2011, 04:54 AM Post #6 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Well, I know what first came to mind looking at the thread title...
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| Luke's Dad | Oct 28 2011, 06:28 AM Post #7 |
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Yeah, no offense Brenda, but the actual thread was a bit of a letdown
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| brenda | Oct 28 2011, 06:29 AM Post #8 |
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You need sort of a hardy pastry dough. I'll try to remember to post my recipe later today. It is not meant to be a tender crust like a fruit pie. It is sturdy enough that you can pick it up and hold it to take a bite of the pasty, if you want to forgo the fork. Yet it is still tasty and not hard or tough to chew, kind of a fine middle ground there for a pastry. |
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| brenda | Oct 28 2011, 06:30 AM Post #9 |
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You and Jolly need cold showers.
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| brenda | Oct 28 2011, 06:33 AM Post #10 |
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You'd love my pasties, Mik. Mine have a robust flavor, not the bland stuff often offered in the line of pasties. I use plenty of onion, a little garlic, and lots of other spices and herbs. Daughter adores these. She is excited it's pasties day.
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| Luke's Dad | Oct 28 2011, 06:35 AM Post #11 |
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Snort |
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| brenda | Oct 28 2011, 06:41 AM Post #12 |
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Cold shower for you, buddy!
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| Mark | Oct 28 2011, 06:43 AM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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mmmmmmm, pasties! |
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| apple | Oct 28 2011, 07:20 AM Post #14 |
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one of the angels
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don't forget to wash the keyboard |
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| brenda | Oct 28 2011, 08:35 AM Post #15 |
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Crust: (makes 5-6 pasties) 3 cups flour 1 1/2 sticks (or 3/4 cup) unsalted butter (cold) 1 1/2 teaspoons salt Enough cold water to make a slightly sticky dough, ~1/4 - 1/2 cups. My batch today is multiplied by 6. 18 cups AP flour 5 sticks butter unsalted (I'm going lighter on the butter to reduce the fat) 3 Tbls salt a little over 4 cups of ice water I have a pastry hook for my Hobart. The dough is chillin' right now.
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| Luke's Dad | Oct 28 2011, 08:43 AM Post #16 |
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What's it doing? Listening to some music? Watching a flick on TV? |
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| PattyP | Oct 28 2011, 09:09 AM Post #17 |
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Oooooooh, pasties! I've haven't had a pasty is so long. I don't know if Texas even knows what a pasty is. |
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A tired dog is a good dog. "Dogs' lives are too short...their only fault, really." A.S. Turnbull | |
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| brenda | Oct 28 2011, 10:56 AM Post #18 |
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Had to increase my butter from five to eight, which is only slightly less than the recipe states. Got a nice silky dough. Should be good! Made 32 pasties and ran out of filling. I have some turkey pot pie filling to use with the remaining dough. Should get 8 or 9 pot pies. Nice to fill up the freezer. These are my convenience foods for future days. |
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| brenda | Oct 28 2011, 10:57 AM Post #19 |
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It turned out silky, so I'll leave you to figure out how that happened while it was chillin'. |
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| brenda | Oct 28 2011, 10:59 AM Post #20 |
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More likely to see tortillas down your way. Make some for your freezer. Very handy for the night before an exam.
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| jodi | Oct 28 2011, 01:18 PM Post #21 |
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so how long to you hook it for, and how long do you chill it for, and do you roll out the little circles in flour before you make the pasties? |
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| Jolly | Oct 28 2011, 01:24 PM Post #22 |
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Real similar to a Nachitoches meat pie. If you're anywhere around Northeast Texas, they know what that is. |
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| brenda | Oct 28 2011, 02:43 PM Post #23 |
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I think you're asking about the filling, so that's what I'll address. For me, cooking the filling a day in advance makes it possible to do a large amount for filling the freezer with pasties. I brown the meat while I chop the veggies. The veggies go into a large roaster, and I put the meat on top with the herbs and spices I want. I pour the broth over all of it and put a tight lid on the roaster. The whole works cooks for about 90 minutes at 350F. The rutabagas take the most time to cook, so that's why I plan for a long cook time. After I remove the roaster from the oven, I stir the whole works to distribute all the goodies, adding more herbs and spices if it needs it. Sprinkling some flour into the mix soaks up the remaining broth. This helps keep the pasties moist inside when the filling finally gets baked inside the pastry. Mix the dough and let it chill for 30 to 60 minutes. By using ice water, you can go with the 30 minutes. If only using cool water, plan for 60. Yes, I roll out circles of dough, anywhere from 6 to 9 inches in diameter. Put the filling on one side, keeping it away from the edges. Fold the empty side of dough over the filling (I use about a cup of filling in each) and roll the edges or crimp with a fork. I like to roll the edges to look like rope. There are videos on youTube about how to do this, too. To move a filled pasty to a baking sheet, I like to use a cake lifter. ![]() On a half-sheet pan, lined with parchment paper, I can usually fit 6 pasties. Put a tray into the freezer, let the pasties get firm, and then you can transfer them to freezer bags for storage. If anything needs clarification, just ask me. |
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| John D'Oh | Oct 28 2011, 03:33 PM Post #24 |
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Are these like Cornish Pasties?![]() Random trivia: they were shaped like that so that the Cornish tin miners could hold onto the crust and eat the pasty. |
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| brenda | Oct 28 2011, 03:52 PM Post #25 |
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Yes, John, they are of the same nature. The crust is intended to be sturdy enough to be held in the hand while eating. The one in the picture also shows the rolled edge that I like. Well done, Herr D'Oh! You get a gold star and a one-way ticket to Minnesooooota.
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