Shannon here: Ever heard of Pasty? I hadn’t. But it sounds yummy. Laura V. Hilton shares the recipe for Michigan Pasty, plus a chance to win a copy of her latest Amish Romance, Firestorm. Comment or answer the question at the end of the post to enter the drawing for winner’s choice of format. Deadline: July 28th, 11:59 pm central time. Here’s Laura:
Michigan pasty recipe
4 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 cup shortening
1 ¼ cups ice water
1 t salt
5 ½ cups sliced potatoes
2 carrots sliced
1 onion diced
½ cup diced rutabaga
2 lbs venison (can also use beef or pork stew meat or ground beef and pork)
1 T salt
1 t black pepper
1 cube beef bouillon
½ cup hot water
Directions:
Whisk together flour and 1 t salt into large bowl, cut in shortning. Make a well in the center of he mixture, and quickly stir in ice cold water. Form dough into a ball. Set aside.
Dissolve the beef bouillon cube in hot water. Combine uncooked vegetables, uncooked meat, 1 T salt and pepper with the bouillon.
Roll out pasty dough into 6 x 8 inch rectangles. Place about 1 ½ cups of filling in the center of each rectangle. Bring 6 inch sides together, and seal. Cut a slit in the top of each pasty. Place on dull, not black, baking pans.
Bake at 425 degrees F for 45 minutes.
About Laura: Laura V. Hilton is an award-winning, sought-after author with over twenty Amish, contemporary, and historical romances. When she’s not writing, she reviews books for her blogs, and writes devotionals for blog posts for Seriously Write.
Laura and her pastor-husband have five children and a hyper dog named Skye. They currently live in Arkansas. One son is in the U.S. Coast Guard. She is a pastor’s wife, and homeschools her two youngest children.
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About the book – Firestorm:
Bridget Behr and her family migrate from the bustling Amish community where she grew up in Ohio to the mostly unpopulated Upper Peninsula of Michigan after a stalker breaks into their home. While her father and brother try to find work in the area, the family is forced to reside in a borrowed RV until the house and barn are rebuilt. While Bridget is hoping for a fresh start, she’s afraid to trust anyone—even Gabriel, the overly-friendly Amish man who lives nearby. Bridget thinks he’s a flirt who serial dates and doesn’t even remember the girls’ names.
Due to not enough construction work in his Florida community to keep him out of trouble, Gabriel Lapp has been sent to Michigan to work. His father is desperate for his son to settle down. When the family walks into Gabe’s home in the middle of a thunderstorm and he discovers their circumstances, he offers to help with construction. For Gabe, the beautiful girl he teasingly calls “the recluse” once he discovers she doesn’t attend youth events, confuses him like none other.
As Gabriel and Bridget grow closer, they realize there is more to a person than meets the eye. Just as Bridget is finally settling into her new life, and perhaps finding love, tragedy strikes. Now Bridget and her family must decide if they should move to another Amish community, or dare to fight for the future they’d hoped for in Mackinac County.
Question for Readers: Do you eat wild game? If so, what is your favorite? If not, what is your favorite meat?
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I really like venison. Had never eaten it till I lived with a family in the Seattle area. My second favorite is snapping turtle. Of course it’s rare to eat that, since the snapping turtle would rather bite you than die.
I have never had turtle of any sort.
I never had turtle of any sort.
I love deer meat as well as beef and chicken
yes.
I love venison and all game meat!!! Bring it on!!!! Being raised on a farm, that sometimes had abnormal livestock, with hunting & fishing a big part of our lifestyle, and a brother in law that was a game bird and animal breeder, we ate a LOT of game. If I listed all the types, someone would go eewww!!! God told Pater everything was clean, so eat up!!!! LOL. Thanx for the recipe and the giveaway!!!
how fun!!!
I love venison and elk but venison is more common here. I keep hearing awesome things about this book!
Thank you, Katie.
I love venison! I just bought this book, and I’m looking forward to reading it.
Thank you, Candace. Enjoy!
I love venison, but my favorite is rattlesnake. I only had it once at a festival in TX. It was so good I’ve wanted more ever since and that was 20 years ago. It was in a long coil and deep fried. Yum. So tender and sweet taste. I’ve had elk jerky and liked it. I’ve also had wild hog, alligator, squid, and squirrel. The hog was good, sweeter than regular ham. The alligator was okay. The dark meat tasted like chicken and the light like pork. I love squid. I wasn’t crazy about squirrel. It tasted like dark chicken meat and I’m a white chicken type of gal.
I hate squirrel. It’s nasty. Alligator was okay, but wouldn’t want it often. I never had rattlesnake.
Thanks for the recipe. It sounds like it would be tasty with moosemeat, too. There are four generations of hunters in our family. They focus on finding moose each fall, but aren’t always successful. That’s my favourite wild game, but I also enjoy venison and the occasional feed of grouse.
I never had moose, it would be good though I’m sure.
I haven’t eaten a lot of wild game. My hubby’s grandma used to cook whatever Grandpa shot, so the hamburger helper on Sunday might have had raccoon or possum in it. Still tasted like hamburger helper to me!
I never had raccoon or possum.
Since I married a hunter/fisherman, well over half the meat we consume is wild game (venison, duck, goose, wild turkey) or crappie. Doesn’t matter the season my hubby hunts it.
My favorite game meat is moose, unfortunately we don’t get that here in Arkansas so I’ll settle for venison.
There are elk in Arkansas though!
I have tried both venison and buffalo. Sadly I didn’t enjoy either one. I am more of a chicken gal.
My husband says he won’t eat venison, so I get it ground and use it in place of hamburger sometimes, and he doesn’t know the difference. I do tell him after he eats though. 🙂
Love Venison and Elk Meat it is awesome Thank you Laura for this amazing recipe and Thank you for this wonderful giveaway Would love to win this book!
Thanks for entering Sarah.
My grandfather used to hunt, so we ate a lot of venison. We also had the occasional squirrel, sometimes frog legs… 🙂 I’m more of a grocery-store meat kind of girl now.
I never had frog legs.
I have eaten Rabbit and that is good. I tried deer and didn’t like the meat.
I’ve never had rabbit either, but my children had it.
Okay, I have memories of helping make version burgers as a child. Because of this. I don’t like it. I am a Midwesterner and love my comfort food. Very boring but true. Thank you for the chance to win the book.
I guess I lived in a different time Saturday mornings were for squirrel, rabbit and deer hunting so I have ate it all. I use to go with my uncle to pull snapping turtle traps and we had turtle soup. Now would I eat that stuff now, NO I love animals and I won’t kill them. I know beef, chicken and pork but zi don’t have to kill those.
No I don’t like wild game,so I like beef steak,chicken,thank
I love deer and wild turkey!
I have a winner! Carol J. Garvin won the drawing. I appreciate Laura for being my guest and everyone else for stopping by.