Guess I'll jump on the recipe bandwagon.
One for the ages, and one of my favorites. [:)]
The Butte Pasty, from the Butte Heritage Cookbook.
Pastry:
3 cups flour
1/2 -1 tsp. salt
1 1/4 cups lard or shortening
3/4 cup very cold water
Measure flour and salt. Cut in lard until dough resembles small peas. Add water and divide into 6 equal parts.
Filling:
5 or 6 medium potatoes (red are best)
3 medium or 2 large yellow onions
parsley for flavoring
2 pounds of meat (loin tip, skirting or flank steak)
butter
salt and pepper
Roll dough slightly oblong. Slice in layers on dough, first the potatoes, then the onions and last the meat (sliced or diced in thin strips). Bring pasty dough up from ends and crimp across the top. Making the pasty oblong eliminates the lump of dough on each end. Bake at 375? for about one hour. Brush a little milk on top while baking.
Note: Old-timers claim the pasty arrived in Butte, Montana along with the first housewives who followed their husbands into the mining camp. Long favored in the copper miner's lunch bucket, the pastry-wrapped meal was an ideal way for "Cousin Jeannie" to provide a hearty meal for the hard working "Cousin Jack." As the miner unwrapped his lunch, he would refer to the pasty as a "letter from 'ome." Its popularity spread quickly throughout the camp, and today the pasty is as much a part of Butte as the Berkeley Pit.
850 recipes total, and you'd be hard pressed to find one with a better diversity in recipes.
The Butte Pasty, from the Butte Heritage Cookbook.
Pastry:
3 cups flour
1/2 -1 tsp. salt
1 1/4 cups lard or shortening
3/4 cup very cold water
Measure flour and salt. Cut in lard until dough resembles small peas. Add water and divide into 6 equal parts.
Filling:
5 or 6 medium potatoes (red are best)
3 medium or 2 large yellow onions
parsley for flavoring
2 pounds of meat (loin tip, skirting or flank steak)
butter
salt and pepper
Roll dough slightly oblong. Slice in layers on dough, first the potatoes, then the onions and last the meat (sliced or diced in thin strips). Bring pasty dough up from ends and crimp across the top. Making the pasty oblong eliminates the lump of dough on each end. Bake at 375? for about one hour. Brush a little milk on top while baking.
Note: Old-timers claim the pasty arrived in Butte, Montana along with the first housewives who followed their husbands into the mining camp. Long favored in the copper miner's lunch bucket, the pastry-wrapped meal was an ideal way for "Cousin Jeannie" to provide a hearty meal for the hard working "Cousin Jack." As the miner unwrapped his lunch, he would refer to the pasty as a "letter from 'ome." Its popularity spread quickly throughout the camp, and today the pasty is as much a part of Butte as the Berkeley Pit.
850 recipes total, and you'd be hard pressed to find one with a better diversity in recipes.
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One more time around. A must try, IMO.[:)] 0 -
OK me too, first call a Uber to take you to Charleston SC, head to Hall's Chop house, order just about anything on the menu, enjoy. Pay the large tab and go home. 0 -
Might just have to give that a try, Thanks! 0 -
Butte America. 0 -
Copied that to my recipe files.
Thank you.0 -
You Martha Stewart guys should post over on the homemakers forum, just below the wanted forum.[}:)][:p] 0 -
There's some info about Pasty Butt on the chicken chick website
https://the-chicken-chick.com/pasty-butt-in-chicks-causestreatmen/0 -
Being a northern Michigander I was raised on pasties! [:p] Ours originated from the copper mines up in da UP. Brought here by the Finnish immigrants. Whelen, your recipe sounds very good and I like the meat you use!
A big difference between the Butte's and the Upper's recipe is the addition of diced rutabaga's and carrots in the mix. Da Upper Peninsula also used lard mixed with beef suet in the crust and the meat could be ground beef with added stew meat for texture. They also blend the all of the meat and veggies together not layered like in the Butte pasty.
I will definitely give yours a try and appreciate you sharing! Joel[:p]0 -
quote:Originally posted by He Dog
You Martha Stewart guys should post over on the homemakers forum, just below the wanted forum.[}:)][:p]
The administrators were thinking about opening up a new forum called "men that can't take care of themselves forum" but they thought it would get kind of lonely over there for you by yourself[;)][:D]0
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