Divide Cornish
Pasty Dough into 12 equal pieces.
Not exact matches
It should be dry and crumby, not
pasty like a
dough or batter.
I had more than enough
dough for a normal sized pie and the four
pasties.
I divided the
dough into two mounds, estimating what would be needed for one for a 9in pie plate and the rest to make
pasties.
Repeat with remaining
Dough and Filling until you have 16
pasties.
I also increased the amount of filling per
pasty up to about a tbsp because it seemed I had plenty of room left inside (I doubled the recipe, got extra rolled
dough, and ended up filling about 40
pasties); the casings still held up pretty well during baking though!
I bought ready - made flaky
dough and I'm really happy with how the
pasties turned out, without having to add cream, more eggs (apart from the one used for eggwash), adding a lot of extra baking time and unhealthy fat (like other recipes suggest).
Using a 4» round cutter and two rolls of pie
dough, it'll make about 18
pasties.
To make these
pasties relatively time - friendly, this recipe uses store - bought frozen puff pastry sheets instead of traditional shortcrust
dough.
Most traditional Cornish
pasties are semicircular in shape, prepared with a crimped shortcrust pastry
dough, and filled with meat and vegetables.
You want to end up with a
pasty kind of
dough that you'll then press down onto two small pie tins or one medium one.