Pasty ideas please!!!

bethtanner · #1 (**permalink**) 02-10-07, 09:26

Thinking of other things i can put in |Georges lunch box. I would love a recipe for mini pasties that i can freeze then heat in the morning and wrap in foil to keep warm. Beth xxxx

noababy · #2 (**permalink**) 02-10-07, 10:34

what's a pastie?

kattas · #3 (**permalink**) 02-10-07, 20:28

If you roll out some pastry, not too much to make a smallish circle and then place some filling such as cornedbeef and potato or cheese and onion on to one half of pastry and then bring the other half of the pastry over the top and seal around the front.. that is a pasty. Can you picture that.

kattas · #4 (**permalink**) 02-10-07, 20:32

Hi Beth. I once made cornedbeef and potato pasties once, cooked them and then froze them, I reheated them a couple of days later making sure they were piping hot, not sure if you're meant to do it that way, but they seemed fine. All I did was make the pastry as normal and then for the filling mixed tinned corned beef with mashed potato and some onions. That probably wasn't much help sorry. xxx

bethtanner · #5 (**permalink**) 02-10-07, 20:41

thanks for that, stupid question but what pastry do you use? Ans susie paties are simply lovely, if you ever come to britian you HAVE to tery one!! beth xxxx

Janebug · #6 (**permalink**) 06-10-07, 10:55

Hi, how about mixing up 500g minced pork with a whizzed onion, three whizzed apples, some black pepper, a teaspoon curry powder or a pinch of nutmeg, an egg and some breadcrumbs (if still too wet I add further readybrek (out the pack not made up!) to make a kind of sausage meat. Then you can make sausage rolls or pasties with this. It will probably need 10oz flour pastry. I think I cooked them for about 40 mins on 180 degrees ish. They came out ok, maybe a little dry (perhaps less readybrek next time!), but no rubbish in them as per bought sausage rolls!

kattas · #7 (**permalink**) 06-10-07, 18:30

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Originally Posted by bethtanner

thanks for that, stupid question but what pastry do you use? Ans susie paties are simply lovely, if you ever come to britian you HAVE to tery one!! beth xxxx

I just use short pastry, but I suppose you could use puff. You can get it all ready prepared in the freezer or fridge sections of supermarkets and all you have to do is roll it out.