This evenings dinner- WELSH PASTIES
Basically... a meat pie...sausage pocket... whatever....
Super Simple, the LO sausage mix from yesterday's dumplings, potato, and pie crust
Cook the sausage, veg and spice mix with 1/2 of a large potato, finely diced
Now the next part was the most difficult for me. First,mix 1 cup COLD diced butter with 2 1/2c flour a a tsp salt in a food processor until small crumbles.
Next- drizzle in 6 Tbsp Ice water into the FP while pulsing. Not so difficult, right? Except my Cuisinart is circa-1985 and has a plastic piece missing, so you have to hold down the lid to engage the safety so the On/Pulse Switch works. Except, if one hand is holding down the top and the other is pushing the switch, who's drizzling in the ice water??? I managed to do some kind of hand-Twister grip to push down on the lid to engage the switch, while holding sideways the cup with the ice water and trying not to splash too much water in... needless to say, there were No Pics of that!
Add just enough water for the crumbles to set together when pressed.
Dump out the crust dough and lightly press together, divide into 2, and the one piece into 2 again.
This recipe is enough for 2 2-crust pies. I have a corned beef in the brine to be cooking in a couple days, so I went with the double recipe using 1/2 half today and 1/2 half later.
Roll out and plop 1/2 of the cooked mixture in. Fold over, trim the edges and crimp. Egg wash when ready to cook, bake 350F for 40 minutes.
Serve with whatever savory sauc or hot sauce you may have hanging about. This one was some Texas Creek Spicy Steak Sauce.
Right now, Honey and Joe are watching Welsh Herding Dog Field Trials 2016..........