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My daughter in law loves pasties...the kind with meat and sliced potatoes and onions. Perhaps using either crescent dough or grands? Any suggestions on how to make the filling and put them together for baking?

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what i do for pasties is to make a very thick stew of cooked potatoes, carrots and onion.  make some really flaky pie crust with 1cup flour to 1/3 cup plus 1 tbsp of butter flavored crisco and a scant dash of salt,  miss until dough mixture is in little pea sized pieces.  add ice water to make it good rolling consistancy.  you would probably need more than 1 recipie of crust.  roll out med. thickness and cut out in circles about the size of a small saucer.  put some of the filling mixture into the middle of the crust circle.  fold over and seal the sides.  brush with milk and bake until crust is golden brown.  mix together 1 can cream of mushroom soup with 1/2 cup of milk and heat til very hot.  place a pastie on each plate and pour some of the mushroom mixture on each.  absolutely delicious using either left over chicken, beef and pork.

The person that answered you last Feb. [2010] was spot on!  I must assume by now you have found some good recipes

for these .. but if not then just "google"   Pasty   or Michigan Pasty   Or Cornish pasty.   (In the north Country

we would tell you that  "pasties" are what burlesque dancers wear ... lol)

A real pasty usually has .. meat, potato, onion, rutabaga or turnip, carrot, celery,  &  whatever spices suit your tastes.

I also stick mushrooms in mine, usually portabello. I also do a couple of other little tricks to mine, depending on

what "cooking" mood I am in at the moment.

Hope this reaches you, if you haven't already found this all out before now, then it should be helpful.

Autumn16