The Coal Miner’s Fast Food – Cornish Pasties
At a Glance
- Prep
- 20 minutes
- Cook
- 45 minutes
- Total
- 1 hour 5 minutes
- Servings
- 4 serving(s)
Categories
- Lunch
- Main Course
- Savory Pies
- Snacks
- Cornish
- English
- European
- Baking
Allergens
- Wheat
- Milk
Servings & Nutrition
Original recipe serves 4. Current scale: 1x.
Posted for Zaar World Tour. This is a recipe with deep and interesting historical significance... nothing says "Cornwall" more than the Cornish Pasty. It was the meal of choice for coal miners, as it was a ultimate own pre packaged "fast food" of it's day, that was practical to eat by holding the crust in coal stained fingers, economical to make and filling. Recipe is adapted from "Favourite English recipes- Traditional fare from around the Counties'. If you make it before I do, I would very much appreciate your feedback. Please Note: Americans know Swede as "rutabaga" and the Scottish call it "neeps". A websearch tells me that Swede is a fairly recent root vegetable, and is thought to have originated around the 17th century in Bohemia and is the result of a cross between a cabbage and a turnip. It's popular in colder European countries and is a hardy vegetable similar in texture to turnip. ZWT REGION: England.
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Equipment
Oven, baking tray, rolling pin
Ingredients
- 1 lb flour (450 g)
- 5 ounces lard (140g) or 5 ounces shortening (140g)
- 1 pinch salt
- water, to mix
- 1 lb lean beef (450g)
- 1 lb potato (450g)
- 1 lb swede (450g)
- 1 small onion
- 1 ounce butter (30 g OR 2 tablespoons)
- pepper (to taste)
- salt (to taste)
Instructions
Pre heat oven to 400 F (200 C) (gas mark 6).
Rub the shortening into the flour and salt and add just enough water to make a firm pastry dough.
Divide the pastry into 4 equal pieces and roll each piece out until is about 7 inches (18 cm) around. Cut the meat into small very cubes, removing all of the fat.
Cut the potatoes, swede and onion into very small pieces and add to the meat. Place 1/4 of the mixture into the centre of each of the pastry circles and add salt and pepper to taste. Top each with 1/4 of the butter.
Use a little water to dampen the edges of the pastry and bring the sides of the pastry circle up to meet each other so that the weight of the filling flattens out the bottom a little and you can crimp the edges together at the top.
Pinch the edges firmly together and the result will look like a little pie with a Mohawk !
Cook on a floured baking tray for 45 minutes.
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