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Miner's Pie - RoboPasty - Pasties

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This kind of pasties is the ore-digging Miner kind, not these pasties(viewers drop), a pot-pie without the pot (and more viewers drop), a handheld complete meal that was developed for miners to take with them deep down in all kinds of mines all over the world. Rugged enough to be dropped in the dirt, a real hungry-man meal.

The Pasty is pronounced like someone with a Maine-ish Bah Habar accent, Pah-stee not Pay-stee.

Traditionally a calorie-laden bomb for those hardworking miners and made with care by loved ones, this version is a quick and easy update for the modern-day person on the run. One half of the pasty is filled with your entree and the other is your dessert. So, when you take it to go, you can have your dessert and eat it too.

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Step 1Raid the pantry...

Ingredients:

Best is fresh made from scratch, but for demo purposes we will used canned ingredients.

Can of Beef Stew, you can also try a can of chili or prepare your own
Can of Apple pie filling or any other flavor pie filling
Dough for wrapping ( can be prepared pie crust, can of frozen biscuits, can of frozen dinner rolls, pizza dough, phyllo dough, puff pastry or if you have the time and inclination, freshly prepared pie crust)

One 9-inch pie prepared pie crust will make 2 complete Robo-pasties.

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24 comments

Mar 16, 2009. 11:28 AMOscelot says:

I'm definitely going to have to experiment with this. I never thought to use flat dough before. I've made a variant on these, but it's always been with crescent roll dough, so they come out super fluffy, and I don't have as much room for actual filling. Jlist has some really cute cookie cutters and stamps for bento - I'll have to try using them on these too. :) Thanks for the instructable!

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Mar 16, 2009. 7:10 PM

caitlinsdad (author) says:

Crescent rolls/croissant dough seems a little too fragile for something like this. The fillings are a little more liquid and heavy. The thicker pie crust seems to do the trick with containing the mess. Try the prepared pizza crust roll dough too. Have fun!

Oct 18, 2008. 2:24 PMRmg12 says:

Pasties aren't american, they are British (Cornish to be precise) when one half contain savoury filling, the other fruit or jam or other type of sweet filling. the cornish pasty is made with shortcrust pastry though.

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Oct 18, 2008. 3:26 PM

caitlinsdad (author) says:

Food history is very interesting. Immigrant workers and families probably brought the idea to America. They don't call it the melting pot for nothing.

Oct 19, 2008. 9:15 AMRmg12 says:

yep it is! the main profession in cornwall was the mining industry (until they closed) and the special crust was thick, allowing the miners to eat their pasty without getting it dirty from their hands, they then just through away the crust. I think some cornish migrants took it to america.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_pasty
that should tell you :)

Oct 19, 2008. 9:17 AMRmg12 says:

oh yeah it does! Pasty-influences: ew wierd they have Bangor in the USA its a small town in Wales in the UK here!