The Travels of the Agnew Family

Yesterday eight of us spent a couple of hours chopping vegetables and mixing meat so everything would be ready for this morning. Cheryl and I arrived at the rec hall just after 6:30 am .... yup in the morning, don't think the sun was even up. By 7 am five of our helpers had arrived --- the sixth one didn't need to be there till 11 am --- lucky lady. Given this group had never produced pasties together we became a well oiled machine, one person mixed the meat and vegetables together and made the pastry, 2 people rolled the pie dough out, one person weighed out the meat mixture, one person folded the dough and made the pasty look pretty, one person was in charge of the ovens, one person did the dishes and finally one person collected money and handed out the pasties. By 11 am 167 pasties had been made. By 12:30pm all had been baked and the kitchen was mostly clean. By 2:30pm the kitchen was spotless, all the pasties picked up or delivered and Cheryl and I sipping a well deserved glass of wine. Glad that project is done for the year.


Organizing the finished product.


The rollers --- John and Cheryl. John came to the park not knowing how to make pastry, he's leaving well trained.


Ray --- one of our many happy customers.