This section is from the book "Lessons In Cookery", by Thomas K. Chambers. Also available from Amazon: Lessons In Cookery.
Ingredients. - One-half a pound of buttock steak, or beef skirt. Half a pound of potatoes. One onion. One pound of flour. One-half a pound of dripping. Salt and pepper. One teaspoonful of baking-powder.
Time required, about one hour.
To make Cornish Pasties:
1. Take half a pound of buttock steak, or beef skirt, put it on a board, and cut it up into small pieces.
2. Take half a pound of potatoes, wash and peel them, put them on a board, and cut them up into small pieces.
3. Take one small onion, peel it, put it on a board, and chop it up as fine as possible.
4. Put one pound of flour into a basin, with a little salt and a teaspoonful of baking-powder.
5. Put in half a pound of dripping, and rub it well into the flour with your hands.
6. Now add enough cold water to mix it into a stiff paste.
7. Flour a board, and turn the paste on to it.
8. Take a rolling-pin, flour it, and roll the paste out into a thin sheet, about a quarter of an inch in thickness.
9. Cut the paste into pieces about six or seven inches square.
10. Place a little of the meat and potato in the centre of each square; sprinkle over it a little pepper and salt, and a very little of the chopped onion.
11. Fold the paste over the meat, joining it by pressing the edges together with your thumb and finger.
12. Grease a baking-tin, and put the pasties on it.
N. B. - If there is no baking-tin, grease the shelf in the oven, to prevent the pasties from sticking.
13. Put the tin into the oven to bake for from half an hour to three-quarters of an hour.
14. For serving, put the pasties on a dish.
 
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