Roadside Bakery · Cornish Meat Pie
Upper Peninsula Pasty
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Cornish miners originally used the pasty's thick crimped crust edge as a handle to eat it with dirty, unwashed hands underground, then threw the crust away.
A half-moon pastry is filled with diced beef, potato, onion, and rutabaga, then baked until golden. Roadside bakeries across Michigan's Upper Peninsula sell them hot, wrapped in paper for miners and travelers alike.
Why it's made this way: Cornish immigrants who came to work the Upper Peninsula's copper and iron mines in the 1800s brought the pasty, and it remains the region's signature handheld food.
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