Recipe: Tasty Flossie's Proper Cornish Pasty

Flossie's Proper Cornish Pasty.

You can have Flossie's Proper Cornish Pasty using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Flossie's Proper Cornish Pasty

1. It's of Pastry.
2. It's 1 lb of Plain Flour.
3. It's 3 oz of Lard.
4. Prepare 3 oz of Margarine.
5. It's 1 each of Egg for wash.
6. Prepare of Filling.
7. You need 8 oz of Potato cut into small wedges.
8. It's 6 oz of Swede cut into small wedges.
9. It's 1 large of Onion diced.
10. You need 8 oz of Skirt Beef diced.
11. It's 1 pinch of Salt.
12. Prepare 1 pinch of Pepper.
13. It's 1 oz of Butter.

Flossie's Proper Cornish Pasty instructions

1. Work the margarine and lard into the flour until you get a breadcrumb consistency..
2. Make a well in the mixture and pour in 3/4 pint of cold water. Mix in from the sides and fold. Add extra water or flour to get a good consistency. Refrigerate for at least 30 mins..
3. Flour the worktop and rolling pin. Roll and fold the pastry until you've got the desired size..
4. Add a pat of butter to each pastry centre, then the filling: potato, then swede, then onion, then beef..
5. Brush the edges of the pastry and crimp together. Brush the finished pasties with milk or egg and cook for 20 mins at gas mark 6, then turn down to gas mark 3 for an hour..