ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH THE PREPARATION, PREHEAT THE OVEN TO 375°

INGREDIENTS

Dough:

4 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons salt

3½ tablespoons curry powder (Try to use some brand of Jamaican curry powder if you can. I’m not sure what the difference of ingredients is actually, but Eastern or Indian curry seems to have a different type of flavor)

2 cups shortening, butter or lard

1 cup of water

1 tablespoon vinegar

3 egg yolks

(Also 1 additional whole egg kept on reserve till later for brushing on top of the finished pastry before baking)

DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING THE DOUGH

Mix with a pastry blender or a fork in a bowl, or else if you have a food processor that works very well for this:

Mix together the flour, salt and curry powder till well mixed.

Cut up the butter or shortening and add to flour and chop till it looks like cornmeal.

Mix together the water, egg yolks and vinegar and add into flour.

Either mix well with your hands or a spoon until you can form a ball or

If you are using a food processor, pulse several times till your dough forms a ball

Wrap the ball in plastic wrap and put into fridge for 1/2 hour or so.

Filling

Oil

1 onion, chopped

Garlic to taste

A few green scallions, chopped

2-3 tablespoons fresh thyme taken off the stalks

6-8 Allspice berries (depending on size) ground in mortar/pestle or pounded with any tool till they are pulverized

1 or so scotch bonnet peppers, minced very finely

Black pepper to taste

1½ – 2 pounds – ground beef, chicken or turkey or a few cups of chopped mushrooms or other veggies

Little bit any tomato sauce

Tiny bit sugar

Salt to taste

Water

1 cup plain unseasoned bread crumbs

DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING THE FILLING

Heat oil in a pan over medium heat,

Cook onion till it begins to soften

Add all the seasonings and the chopped scallions and cook for a minute

Add the beef, chicken or veggies and cook till done

Leave all the juices in the pan

Add salt/pepper, tomato sauce (just a bit) and tiny bit sugar

Add about a cup of water

Simmer over low heat till well cooked

Then add bread crumbs and mix well

Taste for seasonings

Either put into food processor and pulse a few times just to make it smooth OR

If you dont have a food processor I guess you could try to sort of whip it up with a fork or just leave out that step…

Cool the filling completely before filling dough

Roll out your dough and use any round object to cut the dough into the size of pattie you want. I use a pot top and trace around it with a knife. You can make small sort of snack ones or much larger ones

TO MAKE THE ACTUAL FINISHED PATTIES FOR BAKING

Lay out one of your rounds

Spoon some filling onto ½ of each round, but not all the way to the edge – like this:

Now fold the top half of the dough over the half with the filling so that you have a half moon shape

Now carefully, take your fingers and press all around the edges of the dough, trying to be careful not to let any of the filling come out as you are going along.

Then and take a fork and press it down all around the edges to seal them. Like this:

Now it is time for that whole egg you put on the side.

Crack the egg into a small bowl, add a bit of water and whisk it very well with a fork

Brush the tops of each pattie with this egg wash

TIP: IF YOU DON’T HAVE A PASTRY BRUSH, A WADDED UP PIECE OF PAPER TOWEL WORKS VERY NICELY

Put the patties on a greased cookie sheet and bake for 25 to 35 minutes.

Remove from the oven and serve to your family who will already be sitting around the table drooling from the delicious smells coming from your kitchen.