How to make pasties?

A question about : How to make pasties?

I have some shortcrust pastry, some beef skirt, some onions, potatoes and vegetables. So I'd like to try and make pasties.

How do i do it? Also, if i have leftover filling (i have more beef skirt than i need, so thought about making extra filling), can i freeze it?

Best answers:

• Hi,
  preheat oven to whatver you usually do pastry in at your house.
  finely chop pref by hand, the onion, potato and either turnip or swede, depending on your native dialect and what is a available. Most folk go for little cubes! Mix together with salt and pepper. Roll out the pastry the size of a dinner plate for each person. Put pile of veg in middle-about a fistfull and then some meat on top Up to 4oz in my house. Dampen edge of pastry a little.
  there are different styles of crimping....so I will stick my head up a little ready to be shot down i roll the back of the pastry over to the front, seal the edge with my thumb, roll the whole thing back so the edge known as the wall is along the top and then roll and crim p.
  move to baking sheet and brush with milk or egg if you like that.
  bake for 40 minutes.
  serve in paper bag.
  oggie oggie oggie
  yum yum yum!
• if you have a decent amount of beef skirt left over, it makes a fab steak & kidney pudding filling.
  My dear old nan used to chop it up very small, add in a couple of lambs kidneys & a finely chopped onion. stir through a teaspoon or so of bisto, with some salt & pepper & use it to fill out a suet crust, adding in water which will then go on to make a wonderful gravy. I don't eat meat anymore, but I still remember her s&k pudding with delight !
• Thanks everyone Pasties all done and son says it was really yummy, so thats good.
  Can i freeze the leftover mix? The Beef skirt has been previously frozen, so i presume i have to cook before freezing?
• The veg can be frozen, cook the meat as you have said, or just chuck the whole lot in a slow cooker with some stock and chopped carrots and there's another meal!
• You may need to thicken the liquid with some cornflour but yes, top it with mash or pastry and it's a pie. ;-)
• You're from Cornwall and you're having to ask !!
  I thought you were born with Pastie making in your blood down there.