Pasty Virgin.

[snags]

I want to make some Cornish Pasties. Anyone got a tried and tested recipe with quantities of ingredients required please? I want them tasty, big and meaty.

Ta.

[snags]

Good idea. I didn't want the pastry to do that brittle/breaking apart thing when defrosted.

Mind you, if they turn out as I'm hoping and CD spies them, there won't be any to freeze anyway...

[tamborine]

I use Sunday roast leftovers, seasoned and into thawed, frozen puff pastry. Serve with gravy.

[snags]

Leftovers? I do not know of this phenomenon...

[China Doll]

Corned beef and raw carrot?! I'm half bl00dy cornish ya philistine Eddie! ;oP

[shaneystar2]

Corned beef in a tattie oggie ? Leftovers in a tattie oggie ?

My Mum would have kittens .
You would be cursed by the Cornish Piskie for evermore :)
Only ever beef skirt ,very thinly sliced onion ,very thinly sliced potato and swede,plenty of salt and pepper and only ever shortcrust pastry . All these fancy takes on proper parsties just don't cut the mustard .)

[boxtops]

Real Cornish pasties have fruit at one end - I expect you know that they are the shape they are so that the miners could put them in their pockets when they went down the mine - eat one end for main course and the other end for afters,

[snags]

Thanks for all the replies... Eddie... I was with you until you mentioned tinned corned beef :-(

[shaneystar2]

My Mum could make them with the fruit ( usually apple ) in one end and meat in t'other .
They used to throw the end bits down the mines to keep the knockers happy .
Oh how I wish my Mum was still here to make me a proper pasty . I make them from time to time but they're not a patch on hers. :(
And as for shop bought ones ....no thanks .

[snags]

So carrot in there, along with the potato, swede and onion is a no no then is it?

<runs away quickly>

[mrs.chappie]

Don't bother faffing about making your own pastry. Just buy it ready rolled. So much easier, and tastes nicer too.

[jackthehat]

I completely misunderstood the title of this thread and thought it was going to be a discussion on a character from a Jane Austen novel.........

[snags]

jack... if these pasties don't turn out right I might go down that route...