Sweeny Todd made a great meat pie!
No he din't!
Sweeny Todd made a great meat pie!
Oh--in my part of Minnesota, REAL pasties are made with cubed beef (or venison), some ground beef suet, and cubed potatoes and rutabaga (beggies). I don't remember any onions, but some infidels do put carrots in them.
A friend of mine is Cornish, and he says when his granny made them, she waited til the crust was just browned, cut an X in the top, and poured cream over the filling. Put them back in the oven and cook til the cream bubbles.
My Minnesota friends ate them with ketchup.
Pasty making is a popular fundraiser for churches--the ladies all gather and make hundreds of them, and people buy them by the dozen. They do freeze well.
I find them rather flavorless--I prefer a nice southern chicken pot pie with lots of gravy.
Sweeny Todd made a great meat pie!
No he din't!
They have about 12 types of Pasties hot and ready and you buy them by the 1/2 or whole. Delicious!
I suspect that some folks do still use suet but these days it's not pc to admit that you use animal fats. I use lard in my pie crust and I justify it because it works so much better than shortening and since I only make a few pies per year I don't think I am hurting anyone. But there are those in my aquaintance who would be horrified to hear of this practice. To each his own.
I suspect that some folks do still use suet but these days it's not pc to admit that you use animal fats. I use lard in my pie crust and I justify it because it works so much better than shortening and since I only make a few pies per year I don't think I am hurting anyone. But there are those in my aquaintance who would be horrified to hear of this practice. To each his own.
If a recipe calls for margarine, I use butter, if it calls for shortening, I use lard.
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