Michigan Tech Dining Services uses the following recipe for making Cornish Pasties. What is your recipe or variation that you like? Share in the comments below!
Pastry Ingredients:
- 4 cups cold all-purpose flour (cold)
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- 8 ounces Crisco (cold)
- 1 cup ice cold water
Filling Ingredients:
- 1 # raw skirt steak, diced
- 2 cups peeled, diced, red potatoes
- 2 cups diced yellow onions
- 2 cups shredded rutabaga
- 2 ¼ teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 ¾ teaspoons black pepper
- 4 knobs butter
Egg Wash:
- 1 egg with a little water added, beaten well
Instructions:
1. In a chilled bowl, thoroughly combine flour and salt. Once combined, gently rub the Crisco onto the flower to form large flasks for a flaky crust.
2. Add water and mix until the dough just comes together. Form dough into 4 disks, individually wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate until set.
3. To make the pasty filling combine the onion, potatoes, and rutabaga in a bowl. Mix in the salt and pepper.
4. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough into 4, 10” disks.
5. Place ¼ of the filling mixture near the top of each 10” pastry round. Top with beef, place a knob of butter on the beef, and then add a pinch of flour and salt and pepper on top.
6. Wet edge of pastry with a little water. Fold to seal. Crimp edges with a tool or fork, brush each pastry with egg wash, and bake 45-50 minutes at 400﮿F.
Thank you for sharing this recipe. We miss coming up this year.
The best pasties that we’ve found (so far) in the Detroit area is Barb’s Pasties in Clawson. It’s a carry-out-only kind of place, so be prepared to take your pasties home to eat them. They sell freshly-baked and frozen pasties that you can take home and keep in your freezer until you’re in the mood. Fantastic pasties!
Can you share veggie pasty recipe served in MUB in the 80s?
We’ll see what we can do.
I really loved their vegetarian pasties, mushrooms, seeds, white gravy, etc.
Mining & business masters graduate from ’76 – ’84. Really miss the area & the Wednesday Pasties at the student union. Likewise would love the veggie recipe with whole wheat crust. Hope everyone is doing well up there & enjoying the snowy winters
Hi Donnie,
Great to see confirmation that we are still breathing God’s good air.
Venita and I are down under in the land of the Kiwis visiting our daughter and family. Have to tell you we had wonderful steak and cheese pies at the Orakei Korako Geothermal Park & Cave today.
Hope you are well. We saw Tom Jackson in 2018 but have listened to track of Jonny Sager McCallum.
Keep on keeping on Don,
Best Regards,
Pat & Venita