After shipment of 7 jar of mincemeat from a special shop in Sofia, as the star-trek chef saying goes: to boldly goes where no cooking done before. Note: there is no chef in enterprise because they use food maker machine, what a bore!.
Aunty Lee in Norwich, a very wise cooking lady, provided me some useful advice how to make pastry as I have not done cooking for nearly 30 years. It is very simply but take some effort as I only have food processer, unlike food mixer such as Kenwood M800 or 700 series. So I made an attempt to make pasrty using butter rather than lard as done by Mum (RIP). 1 unit of butter and 2 unit flour in weight and bit of water is all needed. It came out nicely
I actually bought large white tray, wooden roller and cooking tray with 12 dipped cup, where pasrty goes there. It all come from Metro.
Arrgggghhhh no pastry cutter, so I used coffee cup and medium size bowl instead (using digital vernier, it about 102.6mm inner diameter, yep that about right!)
After bit of pastry work and putting yummy mince meat in. I leave the tray in fridge until early morning, I turned on the oven and leave it for 20 min (checking every 5min, just to make sure!). pasrty going too brown is bad new!.
After serving several friend (employee) and they absolutely loved it, one guy (Vasil) keeps pegging me for more, so I made some more (careful with mince meat, it now difficult to get more!) and he is very happy man!, with massive grin between ear and ear. My Manager loved it. My friend in Varna loved it.
I'm now attempting to buy Kenwood food mixer on ebay (in UK, they moan a quite lot about shipment to BGN) where there is lot of 2nd hand. I found cheap sub-food mixer from Metro for 20 Leva, so I bought it to give it a try. It might burn out as parsty is tough dough.
Keep up good life in Varna, it best decision I made.
Riscy
