Here's the recipe and photos I promised several weeks ago. After all, everyone should enjoy a hot pasty with gravy once in a while. And for those who have any interest in snow and ice you can see what passes for entertainment up here in the photos. Just be glad you weren't freezing with the students who worked through the night to finish their work in below zero temps.
So as always take care, but be the woman you are, and fill a friend's cup with the wine of life as you fill your own. I've got important things to do.
K
Pasty (without rutabaga!)
Prepare enough pastry pie dough to make 6 to 8 pie crusts. Use butter and shortening in these crusts.
Brown, but do not fully cook one pound of ground pork with one pound of cubed chuck roast
May substitute one pound of hamburger for the chuck roast
Let the meat cool while other ingredients are prepared
Peel 3 large potatoes and cube to ½ inch
Cube 3 carrots
Finely dice 1 medium onion
Soften ¼ pound of butter
MIX all ingredients in a large bowl and add about one tablespoon of salt and one teaspoon of pepper
Spoon the filling onto half of each crust, and fold the crust over. Then dampen and pinch the edges to seal each pasty. Poke a fork into the top several times to ventilate the pasty and place them on a lightly greased cookie sheet.
Cook at 350 degrees for between 1 hour and 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown.
Serve with ketchup or gravyAnd here's a few pictures of the Michigan Technological University (Tech) Winter Carnival snow and ice statue building event. I built statues when I attended Tech between 1969 and 1973. Unless a person stays nice and warm it's a real dumb thing to do, and unlike the old days the school now has medical staff on campus on the night the statues are completed. Unfortunately it was far too cold for the students to do a good job on the statues, and only three of them turned out really nice. These are posted on my photobucket account, and if you want to see more I believe you can click on a picture and brows the album.
