Folded turnover-style small pasties of sweetened soft paste, filled with sweet mincemeat. Balderstone is roughly half-way between
Whitehaven, with its tradition of dried fruits and spices, and the other Lancashire towns of Chorley and Eccles with their similar spiced-fruit pastries.
Original Receipt from ‘Saleable Shop Goods for Counter-Tray and Window’ by Frederick T Vine, 1907
Ingredients
- I lb. flour
- 1/2 lb. sugar
- 6 ozs. butter
- 1/2 oz. baking-powder
- I egg
- Milk
Cooking Instructions
Sieve the baking-powder into the flour; rub butter and sugar into the flour on the board; make a bay, break in the egg, add milk, and make into dough. Roll down in a sheet, and cut with ordinary shortbread cutter; thin out a little, lay a spoonful of mincemeat in the centre, fold over turnover fashion, wash over with milk, turn on to dust loaf sugar, place on to greased tins, and bake in a warm oven.
