I am not sure whether there was a typo in the cook book for this one- it said serves 4 so I made 4 veggie turnovers out of the ingredients …they were each the size of 1/2 a dinner plate! BUT if Marguerite Patten tells me it feeds 4 then I will eat a whole one and I did just that last night and felt very greedy indeed (see that guilt thing again…!)
Each one was the size of 1/2 a dinner plate…!
So here is the recipe for a hungry man’s wartime veggie turnover- I was quite impressed!
See….it is monstrous!!!
Wartime Vegetable Turnover
Pastry
- 12 oz of plain (wholewheat) flour with 3 teaspoons baking powder
- large pinch of salt
- 3 oz margarine (or dripping)
- water
Filling
- 10 oz scrubbed diced cooked potatoes (never remove the skins!)
- 4 medium carrots diced
- 1 large onion or 1 leek finely chopped (saute)
- herbs, salt, pepper
Method
Sift the flour, salt and rub in the margarine
Bind with water
Cook carrots and potatoes until medium soft and then mix gently together in bowl with a little margarine, salt, pepper and herbs
Mix in the onions or leeks
Divide the pastry into 4 pieces and roll out each one into a round
Put mixture into centre of each round
Wet the edges of pastry with water
Pull over one side to the other and press down edges
Prick top of pastry
Brush with a little milk
Bake in hot over (220 C) for 25-30 mins until crisp and brown
Serve hot or cold.
Hi again
I had this problem with her Woolton pie recipe. I couldn’t fit all the veggies into my largest, feeds eight in a pinch, casserole dish. I love those cookbooks too, but I’ve also learned to use a bit of common sense, since I think there might be some typos or perhaps generational misunderstandings. ; )
Yes this recipe must have had a typo- the turnovers were huge. I think they doubled up on the ingredients!!
BTW- Love your website!!!
C xx
I made these the other night, but halved the recipe as it would only be me eating them. They were still huge! I felt like a christmas turkey after eating one.
I don’t have any Marguerite Patten books, but I have a few of the daily telegraph ones, and one which is just a reprint of loads of war time pamphlets and all of their portions are massive too.
Thanks for sharing this recipe though!
The reason you are having troubles is that our vegis are Huge compared to what they used to have in the 1940′s. NOw with synthetic fertilizers we have vegis that are twice the size that they used, of couse 1/2 the nutritional value too.
Brian you know I never even thought of that but you are quite right. No wonder these turnovers were the size of dinner plates!!
now i am a batchelor again i have to learn to cook. this recipe sounds just right for me. will give it a try tomorrow. i can survive on veggy pasties if there half as good as they sound. thanks . ROBERT.
These look lovely, and full of healthy stuff! I wonder if my little boy would like them (he likes anything with “paste-wy” in)….?