Jamaican patties?!


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Jamaican patties?

Okay so I used to live in Toronto, Ontario where my mother used to buy "jamaican patties" from A&P amoung other grocery stores. I then moved To Alberta where no one has even heard of them.
(incase your wondering, they are half moon shaped...with fork marks down the curved side, kinda a flakey pastery with spiced meat in the middle......yum......Anyway, I have been craving these things for over 4 years now.lol.
Please someone tell me if there is anyplace in Edmonton, Alberta where I could get them.....better yet....anyone have a recipie.
I am not even sure if they are actually called Jamaican patties (although this was what they were called in the grocery stores).
I NEED THEM!!!!


Answers:
INGREDIENTS FOR BEEF FILLING:

2 lbs ground beef
1/2 teaspoon Accent
8 sprigs of thyme
2 ozs escallion
2 small hot peppers
1 teaspoon paprika
half a loaf french bread
1 teaspoon salt
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METHOD:

Grind escallion and hot peppers in a mincing mill.
Add to ground beef with salt.
Place meat in a saucepan making a well in the center into which place 4 sprigs of thyme.
Cook without adding any water or fat until meat has lost its broth and only certain amount of oil remains.
Pour off excess oil and add this to the paprika to be used later on, strained for coloring meat.
While meat is being cooked, pour sufficient cold water over bread in a saucepan to cover and soak for a few minutes, then squeeze dry, saving water.
Pass bread through mincing mill and return the ground bread water with 4 sprigs of thyme and cook until bread is dry.
Combine meat and cooked bread.
Add color, paprika in sufficient quantity to color the meat to taste.
Cook together for a further 20 mins.
Add Accent . Remove from fire. Cool for filling pastry circles.
INGREDIENTS FOR PASTRY:
11 ozs suet (beef fat or shortening)
4 cups flour
1 level teaspoon salt
2/3 cup iced water
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METHOD:

Trim all skin and fatty membrane from suet and set overnight in freezer.
Next day, with a very sharp knife shave suet as finely as possible.
Combine salt and flour, then work in suet as you would shortening in plain pastry, cutting it in with two knives.
Add iced water in sufficient amount to have a dough which can be rolled out.
Form into a ball and with a rolling pin, pat gently, turning the dough over once or twice in order to have it all properly held together.
Set overnight wrapped in wax paper in freezer.
Next day, pull off enough dough (after defrosting) to roll into a circle the size of a breakfast saucer.
Dip dough in flour before rolling.
Roll quite thin and cut in a circle. (use saucer for help) In the center of each circle place a spoonful of meat, fold dough over to form a crescent shape seal edges with egg white or by crimping the edge and folding dough slightly under.
Do not prick the pastry.
Bake on ungreased tin sheet in a hot oven for about 35 mins.
This recipe will make about 3 dozen regular patties. if cocktail patties are needed, use a smaller cutter than a saucer.
Serving 3 dozen regular size patties.Try different fillings for experiment.

Source(s):
http://www.jamaicans.com/cooking/cakes/p...

They are called beef patties. If there are more hispanics where you live there might be empanadas in the freezer section, not the same, but similar.

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder
1 dash salt
1/4 cup margarine
1/4 cup shortening
1/3 cup water

2 tablespoons margarine
1 pound ground beef
1 small onion, finely diced
1 teaspoon curry powder
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1/2 cup beef broth
1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
1 egg, beaten

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). In a large bowl, combine flour, 1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder, and pinch of salt. Cut in 1/4 cup margarine and shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in water until mixture forms a ball. Shape dough into a log, and cut into 10 equal sections. Roll each section into a six inch circle (approximately 1/8 inch thick). Set aside.
Melt margarine in a skillet over medium heat. Saute onion until soft and translucent. Stir in ground beef. Season with 1 teaspoon curry powder, thyme, 1 teaspoon salt, and pepper. Cook until beef is evenly brown, stirring constantly. Stir in beef broth and bread crumbs. Simmer until liquid is absorbed. Remove from heat.
Spoon equal amounts of filling into each pastry circle. Fold over and press edges together, making a half circle. Use a fork to press edges, and brush the top of each patty with beaten egg.
Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until golden brown.

Maybe you can buy them online...
check it out.
If not, maybe I'll send you some ... I'm in Toronto, and know a great little store that sells the BEST pattys!
I'm hungry now.

*that's amazing that you can't find them in AB!

These are the ones I grew up eating. Probably not the best, but they were good when I was a kid.

http://www.amazon.com/tower-isles-jamaic...

They sell them here. They are a Caribbean food that Puerto Rican's also make called pastelitos. I love them!! If you can find a Puerto Rican market or maybe even a Cuban one in your area they may make and sell them.




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