pumpkin pasties

sambusak dough + filling ohsoloosely adopted from here http://www.pumpkinpatchesandmore.org/pumpkinpie.php + two lines of instruction from here http://www.britta.com/hogwarts/recipes.html#pasties = excellent pasties

this one was another rather epic recipe. started out with the pumpkin, which i prepared about a fortnight ago in my ghetto-rigged steamer and canned. then on thursday i made crust (with slightly salted butter, so definitely more of a savoury crust) for leek and mushroom tarts (next post) and kept the extra.
i was supposed to make these yesterday, instead of an apple pie. but i went to northumberland instead. so today, i skipped the farmers market and baked.
mixed up the filling, going a bit heavy on the eggs and milk, to create a fluffy filling, and baked it in - you guessed it - a muffin tin! i didn't have a strainer for the pumpkin, so the fillings turned out a bit watery on bottom, but a few minutes in the grill fixed that nicely.

then thawed the crust (our fridge has frequent fantasies of being a freezer, complete with an occasional need to ice vegetables to the back wall) and wrapped about 3/4 of each filling in crust, then used the separated bits to fill more. a half a batch of crust made about a dozen pasties, so i had a pumpkin sandwich for lunch and put a couple fillings in the fridge. oh! exciting development of the day, i figured out how to make the rolled pasty crust edge. (yes, i am slow)

so all-in-all, time consuming but easy and delicious.