11/02: Making Pasties
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
This year we decided to forgo the pasties fund-raiser and just make pasties for ourselves --- Cheryl, Ester, Jim, Carol, John, Ed and myself.
The ladies went grocery shopping on Friday to pick up supplies and were very excited when the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile was spotted. Not sure if that was the highlight of the day or if it was the stop at Dairy Queen.
Saturday morning it was time to make the pasties.
The pastie crew ... Esther, me, Cheryl, John, Carol and Patty (we borrowed her oven).
Carol's fingers were just flying as she closed up a pastie.
The end result was very good pasties and a couple of pies --- needed to use the left over pie dough. Now the pie story. John and Carol have a convection / microwave oven in their trailer. John decided that he wanted to try baking a pie in his oven. We got out the book and the instructions said 45 to 50 minutes on 400F for a pie. First pie was an apple pie .... it was a smaller pie so we opted for 45 minutes. At around 40 minutes John called me over and we decided the pie was done and removed it from the oven. When we ate it we realized that it was more than done ---- the apples had the texture of dried apples, lots of flavor but a little tough. Pie two was a peach pie using canned peaches (not a lot of choice in fresh or frozen fruits at reasonable prices). We watched this one a lot closer and pulled it after 30 minutes --- it was cooked perfectly and the canned peaches were acceptable.
The ladies went grocery shopping on Friday to pick up supplies and were very excited when the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile was spotted. Not sure if that was the highlight of the day or if it was the stop at Dairy Queen.
Saturday morning it was time to make the pasties.
The pastie crew ... Esther, me, Cheryl, John, Carol and Patty (we borrowed her oven).
Carol's fingers were just flying as she closed up a pastie.
The end result was very good pasties and a couple of pies --- needed to use the left over pie dough. Now the pie story. John and Carol have a convection / microwave oven in their trailer. John decided that he wanted to try baking a pie in his oven. We got out the book and the instructions said 45 to 50 minutes on 400F for a pie. First pie was an apple pie .... it was a smaller pie so we opted for 45 minutes. At around 40 minutes John called me over and we decided the pie was done and removed it from the oven. When we ate it we realized that it was more than done ---- the apples had the texture of dried apples, lots of flavor but a little tough. Pie two was a peach pie using canned peaches (not a lot of choice in fresh or frozen fruits at reasonable prices). We watched this one a lot closer and pulled it after 30 minutes --- it was cooked perfectly and the canned peaches were acceptable.