Cook the Book: Pumpkin Pasties

Name: Cook the Book: Pumpkin Pasties
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: English, British, Scottish, European
Ingredients: 5 Tbsps cold butter, cut into chunks; 237 milliliters canned pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling; 296 milliliters all-purpose flour; 59 milliliters granulated sugar; 0 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 0 teaspoons ground nutmeg; 4 Tbsps ice water; 6 servings Pastry Crust; 0 teaspoons salt; 3 Tbsps vegetable shortening, chilled and cut into chunks

The recipe Cook the Book: Pumpkin Pasties could satisfy your Scottish craving in roughly 1 hour and 30 minutes. One serving contains 338 calories, 5g of protein, and 17g of fat. This vegetarian recipe serves 6. Plenty of people made this recipe, and 509 would say it hit the spot. If you have butter, salt, flour, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Place the flour, sugar, and salt in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse a few times to combine. Scatter the butter and shortening over the flour mixture. Pulse about 15 times until the mixture resembles a coarse yellow meal, with no white powdery bits remaining.

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Shortening

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Food Processor

Bowl

Transfer the mixture to a large mixing bowl.

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Mixing Bowl

Sprinkle 4 tablespoons of cold water over the mixture. Toss the mixture together with a spatula until it starts clumping together. If it's too dry, add more water 1 tablespoon at a time (better to wet than too dry). Gather the dough into a ball and pat it into a disk. Wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

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Dough

Water

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Spatula

Combine the pumpkin, sugar, nutmeg, and cinnamon in a mixing bowl.

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Cinnamon

Pumpkin

Nutmeg

Sugar

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Mixing Bowl

Mix well. Preheat the oven to 400°F.

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Oven

Roll out the dough 1/8-inch thick. Use a saucer to cut out 6 inch circles.

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Dough

Roll

Put 2 to 3 tablespoons of the filling in the center of each circle of dough. Moisten the edges with water, fold the dough over the filling, and crimp with a fork to seal the edges.

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Dough

Water

Cut slits to make vents.

Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet for 30 minutes or until browned.

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