Pasty Recipie

We have a tradition in our deer camp to make pasty pies for one of our camp meals. It is one of the traditional meals of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I'm not from that area but I used to hunt in far northern Wisconsin and the tradition spilled over from my time hunting near the Southern shores of Lake Superior.

Give it a try, I really like pastys and you can doctor them up to your liking. I pre-cook the beef in a crock pot until it resembles shredded beef. A good pasty has to have rutabagas, potatoes and carrots. I add a lot of garlic and some course ground black pepper.

The way I heard the story of the pasty (pronounced past-E, not paste-E) is the miners, loggers and hunters in the UP made these as a meal that could be easily carried in ones pocket. When lunch time came, they'd all grab their pastys out of their pockets and ate.

I hope some here try making pastys and enjoy them as much as I do, Deer hunting just isn't complete without them.

in the UK they are called Cornish pastys and are sold at little roadside stands at the rest areas along the major motorways( our interstate highways)- and yes, they are delicious. they originated in Wales and were a pocket meal for the coal miners( so i was told). i had one 2 weeks ago will driving south from Birmingham to London.

They are (can be) GREAT! I used to live in the U.P. (Hancock), where several cafes offered them....one such was the Kaleva Cafe (gravy optional and good).

oh chit - i was thiking of another kind of pasty that is great to just nibble around

Me too.