Pasties!

My first memory of a specific food is from Negaunee, Michigan -- my mother bought pasties, and along with a bottle of ketchup, and a bottle of pop, we had a picnic on the nearby bluff. Over seventy years later, I can still feel the warmth of the large rock we sat on, with the sun beating down, eating a pasty and drinking orange pop! 

For many of us, the U.P. means "PASTIES." Many of us reminded of the pasties we ate when we were very young made by the church ladies in Trout Creek; or Grandma Curtis's pasties; or Roberg's pasties;  or pasty day at school; all of these bring wonderful memories. We bought pasties at the football games, and watching the ski jumping competitions; we bought them at the bakery and at the dime store; and we bought them to eat on picnics or at roadside rest stops.

About 25 years ago, Jerry and I took a trip across the Upper Peninsula.  We ate pasties from one end of the UP to the other. Some were really really good; some weren't worth eating -- but it was a fun trip!

My kids grew up eating "pasty pie" -- pasty ingredients (without carrots or fish) inside a lower and upper crust in a large pie pan.  In addition to the ingredients below though, we always seasoned it with salt and pepper, and "dotted" the top with butter before we closed the pastry.

Debbie and Wally have the Pasty Corner in Iron River -- and over the years whenever we could, we brought in a cooler and left with it full of frozen pasties to bring back to the cities. Some of the trips, we called our "pasty runs."

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Now when I run out of pasties, I can make a trip to County Market in Hudson, Wisconsin, and buy several frozen pasties from the Pasty Oven in Iron Mountain (but baked in Florence, Wisconsin.) I no longer can make as many trips to the Upper Peninsula as I used to!

Today while rummaging in a box of papers, I found a Pasty recipe on the back of a post card!

Anyone out there want to share your favorite pasty recipe?????