Hi there guys, my name is Pasty. I got the nickname because I once ate 17 pasties in one sitting! I love pasties, and if I could I would only eat pasties. They are so delicious. Well, bye for now!!!!!

Gerritt...sounds good...yes there are a few big bucks around...I got some secrect....shhhhh....spots :)

look forward to seeing you again.

Elo is so cool someone even named a band after it!

Shayne, I'll take you up on the sauna.Word is there's lots of big bucks this year.I'm comming HOME Nov. 14 see you then. Elo ROCKS!!!

Pouttu....we are going to be home during deer season in the great town of Elo....come on over for a sauna.....I get off the slope on the 7th and will be home until the 28th.


shayne

HI, ITS NEIL FROM OGGY LAND AGAIN.THANKS FOR ALL YOUR MESSAGES.I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE WORD OGGY CAME FROM, IT'S JUST A NICKNAME FOR PASTIES AND FOR CORNWALL.CAN ANY ONE GIVE ME SOME INFO ON ANY OF THE CORNISH MINERS AND THEIR FAMILYS THAT MOVED TO THIS AREA PAST AND PRESENT.
THERE IS ONLY TWO THINGS THAT GO WITH A GOOD CORNISH PASTY AND THAT IS A CUP OF TEA AND A SLAB OF CORNISH HEAVY CAKE HERE IS THE RECIPE FOR HEAVY CAKE THE TEA I'LL LEAVE FOR YOU TO WORK OUT FOR YOURSELVES HA! HA !
2LB SELF RAISING FLOUR
8OZS MARGARINE
8OZS LARD(WHITE FAT)
1/2 LB CASTER SUGAR
1/2LB CURRANTS
1/2LB SULTANAS
1 MED EGG
1/4 PINT OF MILK

METHOD:-
IN A LARGE BOWL PUT FLOUR FATS AND SUGAR AND RUB TO A FINE CRUMB ,ADD FRUIT ,BEAT THE EGG AND MILK TOGETHER,STIR INTO MIXTURE,YOU WILL NEED TO ADD A LITTLE WATER UNTIL YOUR DOUGH COMES CLEANLY AWAY FROM THE BOWL, LINE OR GREASE A BAKING TRAY PLACE DOUGH ONTO THE TRAY AND FLATTAN WITH YOUR HAND UNTIL APPROX ONE INCH THICK CRISS CROSS YOUR DOUGH WITH A KNIFE (TO REPRESENT FISHING NETS) THEN EGG WASH YOUR DOUGH AND FINALLY SPRINKLE WITH SUGAR BAKE AT 180 DEGREES UNTIL GOLDEN BROWN THEN CUT INTO APPROX 4 INCH SQUARES, THERE ISN,T A CORNISH SOUL THAT CAN RESIST IT WHILE IT IS STILL WARM ,ENJOY
HAPPY EATING NEIL AND LOUISE EDGCUMBE

Hi Neil, Oggy Land,

A rutabaga is much like a turnip, but the rutabaga is larger and the flesh is more yellow.

Here's a link to a photo: Rutabaga at GardenSeeds.com

Constance

Thanks for the tip, Constance... By the way, folks, you'll also find some pretty interesting photos over at the Constance Cam

Hi ya all..I already wrote but had to agree with Wayne from Texas; Yea you are right the best place is at my kitchen table. I would like to know of a place in the U.P. when I am away from my table. I have been told that I make the best from down here. I had someone ask me to make them for his restaurant...but I think not..It was a nice thought though..Well I would like to know where????

Whoops,
Sorry, Neil, I see that was oggy, not oogy. I'd still like to know what it is short for.

Good Morning, Neil,
Isn't the internet amazing. People from Cornwall, England, conversing with people from all over the U.S. about Pasties!
I have heard that the rugged coastline of the Copper Country is reminiscent of Cornwall's coast.
I'll let someone more knowledgable tell you what a rutabaga is (pronounced at least colloquially root a beggy) but it is a vegetable which looks like a very large yellowish turnip. It has a wonderful flavor without which a pasty is not a pasty to many of us.
Your nickname for pasties, oogy, was interesting. What is it's origin? I don't believe they were ever called that in the CC.
I had a friend who spent some time in Mexica as a child with her father who was a mining engineer. I met her in Florida but she knew what pasties were. Those Cornish Miners got around.
Let us hear from you again.
Florida

Hi Still Waters,
Very interesting site. I am a baker from Cornwall,yes that's Cornwall England!!It's great to see you all have so much pashion for a good Oggy.Your recipes are different,but i bet they are still gorgeous to eat. At the risk of sounding stupid, what is rutabaga? We don't have this over here. Must dash, its midnight over here and i have to be at work in a few hours.I will keep visiting your sight and maybe pass on a recipe or two.

You LAITILA'S don't keep in touch to good. Goin to ELO for a week of deer season in NOV. Another baby on the way,due APR.30.This is a cool site.

Hi "Florida", yes, this weather down here is wonderful. It is especially cool, and windy on the east coast. I couldn't take the U.P. winters any more after living in Florida for so many years. But, I still claim the U.P. as home and I love this Pasty.com site which brings it closer to me when I cannot make it up there. Thank you again, for all the beautiful photos and interesting info.

I'm about to place my first internet pasty order!
Not having access to prepared pastys in the Denver area, I have to make them myself when the craving gets too strong. So this website is very exciting!! I grew up in Ironwood and every Thursday was pasty day across the town. The bakeries and groceries would make their own pasties and I'd sit in school at Central School where we could smell them baking as lunchtime approached. We'd walk home for lunch with that smell permeating the air and be drooling by the time we sat down to eat! And we always ate them with catsup on the side. For some reason, my mother would serve green koolaid to us on pasty day. Now I skip the koolaid, but the rest is a great memory!

Annette [Dupuis]Koepel is my sister

Hi Still Waters: Just want to thank all of you for the breath taking pictures of the fall colors. You all do such a great job. Not being able to make it to the U.P. this fall, I really appreciate the effort of all of you doing such a fine job. Thanks again.

Thanks to both Ellen and J.Dupuis - any relation to Annette? I was born in 1935 and I have this vague memory of the C&H library burning. That is what got me wondering. I have since discussed it via e mail with two of my slightly older siblings and we put the date at around 1940 or 1941. I had been wondering if I really remembered or if I had heard and then dreamed about it as a child but I think I do remember it. I thank both of you for coming to my aid. I felt that this is a place where I might get the information.
Ellen, regarding your comment on the weather down here. It is unbelievable! We usually come back the end of October and never put our air conditioner on. This year due to circumstances we were here all summer and the heat and humidity was awful. Then suddenly, not gradually, it was beautiful. Seventies to low eighties during the day and high fifties and sixties at night. We turned off the air conditioner two weeks ago and have had the house open ever since. This is like our winter weather and the main reason we are here. I still love the Copper Country but I love the winters up there only to look at now. Not to live in. I know there are many, including some of my brothers and sisters who don't feel as we do. A variety of personalities and likes is what makes the world an interesting place, don't you think?

The Lake Linden C&H library burned somewhere in the mid
thirties. That's as close as my memory will
come.

Beware Yoopers!

The creature from Onekama is in your midst posing as a loyal pasty eater. Watch for a motor home with two thirsty trolls.

I'm from Butler PA and I have eaten pasties from the U.P. We go to Rogers city every year and go to the U.P. to check things out.

Hi "Fla", my brother who is somewhat of a local historian, told me that there were two major fires in Lake Linden, one was in 1910 and another in 1887. The entire town burned in 1887. So, it is likely that the library burned in one on these fires. Isn't the cooler weather here in Florida enjoyable?

No, but i would think it was the county court house.Being a retired miner, i do see the old mine shaft in the fourground,and to be living where they have colors like that.Do not ever leave. Former yopper in Texas and hope to return, Wayne

I have a rather strange request. I have been trying since spring to get into the history site on the Lake Linden web site and it has always been under construction.
My questioin is this. Does anyone know in what year the old Lake Linden Library burned down?
Thanks for any information anyone can give.

Congratulations, John! Best wishes to your wife and baby Yooper.

Hello all...Just got back from a 4 day color tour in the Keweenaw.Special bonus was the snowfall on Friday/saturday.The colors were great as always.Special thanks to the Twardziks at the Pines resort in Copper Harbor for putting up with us for Sat/Sun. night.Now if the Packers would have won,,,it would have been a perfect weekend.

Cheddar John,
Congratulations to you and your wife! Happy to hear of your new healthy arrival.
Hugs a kisses to your new little cheesehead.

There's a new pasty-muncher in town!

Alas, for now he'll have to settle for formula.

Matthew John Allen was born 10/09/2000 at 10:49AM. He weighs 7 pounds and stretches a full 21 inches.

He is of sound Yooper stock, descended from the Centennial Heights Salmelas and the Dollar Bay Strieters.

He will become a child of God through the sacrament of Holy Baptism on 5 November 2000.

My wife craved the Hilltop rolls--alas, no one hour delivery to Milwaukee!

Hi Jan write to me and sent your Email address this is Aunt Joy

Hi Michigan!! I was born and raised in Saginaw, but my Mom was born in Ishpeming!! I've been in Oklahoma for almost 20 years now, and somewhere in the past 11 years of raising 5 sons, I came up with my own version of Pasties! My grandfather used to make them with rutabaggas (YUK!) but I picked them out and loved them! In my recipe (which my OKIE sons have learned to request often!), I put some cinnamon in the meat/onion/potato mixture as I cook it, and we douse it in my husband's home-made bar-b-que sauce! The cinnamon doesn't really leave much of a flavor--more of a wonderful aroma--and I haven't had them any other way for a long time. I'm going home for Thanksgiving, and looking forward to Saffron rolls, potato pudding, and pasties with the holiday menu! Ahh... memories of home!! If anyone can tell me HOW to grow a PAPER BIRCH TREE in Oklahoma's sand and red clay, PLEASE TELL ME!! cheb@swbell.net

Looks gray on my computer too...

Is there something wrong with my computer? The Bridge is simply grey every day, never a change.

This afternoon (Friday) we just checked the Bridge Cam and it appears to be working OK. The colors on the Houghton hillside in the background do look a little weak, perhaps we need to change the camera. But it is in fact the current view from the 3rd floor window of the big white house in East Hancock.

To Jan from lower mi.
After reading your note on Pasty Cam, i think the best place to have a pasty, is right at your own kitchen table with no Catsup.

My uncle who now live in Fla(his choice) told me about pasty.com.Thank you Uncle Bob. I was born in the U.P. and I get up there time to time to go to Agate beech. Best spot around.. Any way we always have to stop and have a pasty. I must say that I like my own better but I can't eat anything on mine. My husband likes catsup but I find it insulting because it covers up the taste.
My folks use to live in Bruces and Watersmeet is where the Grandparents lived..My dad taught me to make pasties and He was the best. Where is there a good place to eat them.. like to know. Jan From Cedar Springs Mi

It's gettin' closer--my wife and I are impatiently awaitin' the arrival of a new pasty muncher. Due date is October 17--but who really knows? Will keep y'all updated on the progress.

Stockin' up on that Pasty flavored Gerber's food!

Unfortunately, I was not out enjoying fall color. Pasty Cam provides that for me so I was inside enjoying it. There is really nothing as beautiful as fall and the colors are so vibrant. I have tried to capture them in both fabric and paint but have never been entirely successful. They don't have the sun behind them to bring out the beauty. Nothing can duplicate God's palette but photographs come the closest. Thanks again for the lift.