ENGLISH PASTIES 
CRUST:

3 c. flour
1 tsp. salt
1 c. shortening

FILLING:

1 lb. round steak (with potatoes and onion, in equal proportion to meat)
Salt
Pepper

Cut in small pieces one pound round steak. Place in large mixing bowl. Add about as much cut up potatoes and onions as you have meat. The English go a little shy on meat and lean hard on potatoes and onions.

Cut dinner size rounds of pie crust. On half, place meat, potato and onion mixture. Season with salt and pepper. Turn over half of pie crust onto mixture to make a turnover. Seal and flute edges and bake three pasties with with fluted side out and up in each pie plate. Large pasties can be baked two in a pie plate. Bake for one hour at 350 degrees or until browned.

This is just as my English mother-in-law wrote it down.

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English Pasties
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 KEW (District of Columbia) says:
Thank you for a real English pasty. I was looking through recipes called "English", but I can tell you my London-born grandmother (1888) never even heard of soy sauce. Tomatoes? Where would they be coming from in the winter. Her pasty was - as is yours - straight forward, plain comfort. A joy on a winter evening warm from the oven with beef gravy & treat in my lunch box the day.

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