Pasties - Rhoda Miron

Ingredients

Basicaly it is beef, spuds, carrots, rutabaga, green onions all cut up in equal size. (Half inch cubes) the crust is the key. 1 cup Crisco. 3 cups flours. 1 teaspoon salt. 1 cup ice cold water.

Procedure

Mix Crisco salt and flour with pastry cutter. Poor ice cold water into flour mixture. Blend. Form into equal size balls. Take the ball and flatten with your hands and make into a five inch disk. Use flour on the counter. And roll out to 12 to 14 inch circle. Place meat, spuds, rutabaga, carrots, green onions and a slab a butter salt and pepper then a few more pieces of meat. On half the pastry. Fold over. Crimp closed. Fork the top a few times. Bake for an hour ten minutes at 350. Use ketchup. Yum.

Special Notes

This recipe and photo were shared on Facebook by Jody Miron DeGraw. It was posted on Feb 16, 2013, which was the 111th anniversary of her Grandma Rhoda's birth. I grew up across the street from the Miron family. They were great neighbors. Rhoda was Mr. Miron's mother and they lived in the upper peninsula of Michigan.