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Ann's mother has set
about writing a history of the pasty, complete with family stories and
recipes (available by mail order - price £4.00 including p&p
- and from the shop). As Mrs Merrick documents in her pocket-sized
book, there are infinite variations on a theme: liver and onion, egg
and parsley, beef, egg and bacon, pork and squab, all "pressure-cooked"
inside an unbleached pastry casing without pricked airholes. "You
can put anything in a pasty," says Mrs Muller, but the
ingredients of beef, onion and turnip have become famous as the
traditional filling.
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