Baking is hard.

I'm pretty good at cooking (i.e. I can not burn stuff and it tastes quite tasty). It's easy to make things work or substitute without ruining it or go rouge and add more garlic. But baking is hard. You can change one thing and BAM your cake just became brownies. How does that even happen? I have no idea (yes, I know google can tell me how).

Julie and I have been on the hunt for the perfect crust recipe for making pasties. It is our holy grail. Our unicorn.

Our gchat conversation this afternoon (liberties taken to fix my typos and lack of coherence :
me:  i don't see why it is so hard to make a crust like Cornwall Pasty Co. or any other delicious flaky, maleable pasty?

like why do they always come out like a normal pie crust?

is it more like a croissant?

Julie:  i don't know

i have cornmeal

so i hope that helps

but i don't know!

we will figure it out

me:  yes. we will. we must. this has thwarted me and my happiness for too long.

So  even though we have said we were going to do this for a long time. I think our dreams have been on hold for too long/I'm lazy. 

For a warm-up, Julie is pondering this delightful goodness: http://www.marthastewart.com/333071/moroccan-hand-pies-with-eggplant-and-apr




I want to make everything on here: http://lotrscrapbook.bookloaf.net/other/recipes.html#32

Hold on to your butts.