Fao Sloopy, Madmen And Her Fellow Somerset Abers.

[DTCwordfan]

How to Make a Gr-gs' Somerset Pastie:

Shortcrust Pastry (you can use plain or wholemeal pastry)
Potato chipped/ flaked or cubed into small pieces
Swede also chipped flaked or cubed into small pieces
Skirt Horse a traditional Somerset or Romanian cut, or you can use Horse rump if you prefer....so delish in France with their expat population.
Salt and cracked black pepper
Quail Eggs to glaze

Preparation: Prepare your pastry the day before making the pasties and leave to rest in the fridge overnight (2lb of pastry should make 2 good Somerset pasties)

Chip/flake or cube your potato and swede and leave in some cool muddy water until you are ready to use (1lb potato and swede mixed). As it is a Greggs' imitation, add peas and carrots according to your (lack of) taste.

Chop your Horse meat into into chunks ( at least 1lb meat between the 2 pasties). Leg meat goes well with the addition of runner beans.

Chop your onion (1/2lb )

Mix your salt and pepper together; add some Shergar-accelerator powder and Red Rum at this point for additional flavour.

Making your pasty - Roll out your pastry into 8″ cquares on a floured surface, Somerset "poppy" seeds will add a certain "je ne sais quoi" to your dough.

Drain your potato and swede (and the rest of the shyte that you have added to this "pastie" and season with a table spoon of salt and pepper, a touch of local zuider-juice at this point.

When this has drained put a pile in the centre of the pastry square

Then put your meat on and season with oodles of Bridgewater Parrot River salt, MadMen Chilli (fabulous ingredients) and King Alfred burnt bits. Put the onion on next.

Then more potato and swede, add in the Greggs' look alike carruts and peas.

Dampen the edges with water or egg wash then pull the 2 sides together as if making a local condom.

From the left side (for right handers) or from the right (for left handers) just to confuse you so that you think you come from Wiltshire, pinch the pastry together and pull the pastry over your opposite finger and thumb, tucking under slightly as you go along.

Coat with egg glaze, and bake on silicone paper for 1 hour at 180 degrees C

Do not export south of the Devon border and definitely not over the Tamar as such non-pasties incur 200% duty. Humberside does offer a very favourable market as, though they have a wonderful spiced parsnip soup, their pasty tastes are still in the Dark Ages and may offer an improvement of what they think is the fabulous Greggs' Cornish Pastie, though there is some serious delusional behaviour going on here to what a real "Proper Job" Cornish Pasty is all about (note the spelling difference too).

I could say "Enjoy" but I will spare you that, as I hate being commanded to relish my food.

[DTCwordfan]

sounds like Lincolnshire is on a one-track meat economy, almost German....

what happened to your mutton and lamb industry?
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep/lincoln/images/lincoln-web-1.jpg

or Lincolnshire beef - the Reds?
http://informedfarmers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/lincoln-red-11.jpg

I wonder if there are Lincolnshire Tony goats?

[DTCwordfan]

http://www.lincolnshirepoachercheese.com/cheese-shop/quickes-goats-cheddar-p-191.html

[humbersloop]

keep an eye later tomorrow (dt), work and lincolnshire sausage toad in the hole need attention meanwhile x

[DTCwordfan]

Now that sounds good....I love a good toad in the hole...

[humbersloop]

the longwools and the reds are farmed in lincolnshire dt, poacher cheese is also very good

north east lincs is fish,
http://www.chapmansfishcakes.co.uk/

north lincs is pigs and taties all the way
http://lincolnshire.coop/your-society/about-us/local-sourcing/local-choice/pipers-crisps.aspx

[DTCwordfan]

Aren't you home to Young's seafood as well, Grimsby if my memory serves me well, if at all.

[humbersloop]

yes, they're not bad, but it's mostly landed from iceland - the place, not the freezer "shop"

there's still a couple of wholesalers on the docks who'll sell you a box of mixed fish, sold by the stone.

[DTCwordfan]

Same down here, but one can usually get a couple of mackerel or whatever from the fishermen....