Making Cornish Pasties

[PotteringAlong]

I've never made these and fancy giving it a go. Anyone got a good recipe / top tips?

Ho pottering, I'm Cornish and have made pasties for years. Use a plate as a guide to cut your pastry then in seperate layers layer chopped steak, onion, turnip (swede) and potato, in between each layer season and add a knob of butter, which will make the gravy, crimp and cook for about an hour.

I can do that (hopefully!) - thank you, will try that today.

Also Cornish... Do what boohoohoo said, but I'd also recommend you chop your potatoes and turnip and meat to the same size so it cooks at the same time.

Yum, what kind of pastry? (ignorant)

So you don't cook anything before it goes in? I always imagined it was like stew.

No it all goes in raw, no sauce or gravy just a knob of butter.

Make sure you add plenty of seasoning, especially pepper, and don't let the salt go on the pastry or it will taste bitter.

And skirt steak is the best cut. V cheap too.

Oooh, I love pasties! I'm not Cornish (am American) but here in Minnesota they're ingrained in our culture as well. We had lots of mines and the miners used to take them down the pit.

Has anyone ever tried to make a gluten-free version? Also I've made them with venison before and they're quite good.

can i use mince instead?

No you absolutely cannot use mince... Philistine!

In all honesty use mince if you want, but don't you dare call it a Cornish pasty!

they'll be putting in carrots next.

Don't get me started on carrots!!

Iwatched a programme which had pasties in - in the olden days lots of tin miners left Cornwall and moved to Montana to mine there, their pasties are excatly the same as the UK recipe (very short pastry, steak, potato, swede and onion raw, lots of pepper and butter). They are very ingrained in the mining community there. But they served them covered in chilli and cheese!

They are very easy to make - I always made the pastry with lard for pasties (I don't normally) and use lots and lots of pepper. veyr cheap to make and delicious.

I want Cornish pasties now... I may have to pop to the shops!

My G Grandfather went to Bute, Montana from Redruth, Cornwall to mine over there... Was only there for 3 years and then World War 1 broke out so he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force (of all things)... He went back though and we've neither seen nor heard from him since. He must be buried out there somewhere.

I also really, really want a cornish pasty.

Pasties from shops are useless when you have made your own.

And now my belly is rumbling.. Who bloody started this pasty thread!?

That's it! Bute.

They must have been brave, intrepid chaps (or desperate) to have travelled from small town Cornwall all the way across to the Rockies.

As I said my G Grandfather went with one of his cousins... They were about 19 I think.

Don't shout but as I cannot get turnip / swede here so I have to put a bit of carrot in mine . They do NOT taste the same they are not as good but its better than nothing.....

My mum makes them much the same way as Boohoohoo the only thing she does is lines the pastry with slices of potatothen adds the meat/swede and occasionaly carrot.It stops the seasoning getting on the pastry.

She always initials the knob on the end.

I had a lamb and mint one which was a bit strange.

mmmmm....i'm supposed to be on a diet.