Monday 7 March 2011

235: Yorkshire Cornish Pasties

I had some pastry leftover from the game pie, and I've been wanting to make Cornish Pasties for a little while. However, when I came to look at the recipe and went looking for veggies:
  • According to wikipedia - which is always true - true Cornish pasties do not contain carrots
  • I didn't have any turnip, and I'd thought I had.
So, ingredients became:
  • 250gs lamb, cubed with all the fat trimmed off
  • 1 smallish onion
  • 1 little clove garlic
  • 2 medium potatoes
  • 1 medium carrot (Carrots were always good enough for the sadly defunct Ainsley's, so they're good enough for me)
  • 1 parsnip
I think I should have had more meat for that amount of veggies.

Method:
  • Fry the onion and garlic, some salt and plenty of pepper
  • Add the lamb cook, adding some thyme and worcester sauce
  • Dice the vegetables
  • Boil, drain
  • Mix it all up
  • Roll the pastry out fairly thin
  • Place in pastry
  • Seal with Eggy-wash
  • Oven @200 for 25 minutes or so


I didn't do a bad job of rolling the pastry out thinly. The pastry didn't seem to show any ill effect from having been in the fridge a couple of days.



Here my failings came to the fore. Although successful at rolling the pastry thinly, I hadn't really paid any attention to what shape the thin-roll-ed pastry was. And just like at Christmas; I'm just no good at wrapping stuff. A combination of insufficient eggy-wash and general clartyness resulted in these ugly beasties.

Tasted nice though.

What this did prove was I didn't have enough pastry for the whole mix - so the last two pasties became pies. With plenty of eggy-wash. It it looks all the better for it.
Didn't take long all in. So even though the results are a bit ugly and not quite as planned I'm still happy with my efforts.

3 comments:

  1. Ooh lovely, Cornish (sort of) pasties. They are very satisfying things to make.

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  2. But Cornish pasties don't contain turnip either!!!! Swede, it's swede. So actually you did good with the carrot colour wise. Well done for having a go. i tried once, far too fiddly and never bothered again. Of course, to be pedantic, you are no longer allowed to call them Cornish pasties - unless made here in our fair land ;-)

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  3. There's a mixed response! Sorry for the slow reply, things have been manic at the day job.

    Wikipedia said nothing about turnip! (although, I must confess I've long been a little confused between swedes and turnips.)

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