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Cheese Burger Pasties are hand-held pies that are made from a round of pastry (alas – not usually gluten free), filled with an un-cooked filling (usually meat), folded over (like a turnover or empanada) and baked. They are the national food of Cornwall and were made famous by Cornish coal miners who would carry them to work in tin buckets and eat them for lunch. The traditional pasty is filled with beef, potatoes, onions, swede (which is apparently a type of rutabaga – my husband’s least favorite food EVER) but turnips (maybe his second least favorite food) can be used, salt and pepper. Since the probability of getting my husband to eat anything with a rutabaga or turnip in it is about as high as me being crowned the Queen of England, I decided to make a very American version – Cheeseburger Pasties. The filling is simple, beef stew meat (chuck, rump, whatever is on sale) cut into small pieces, diced onion, salt and pepper. So where’s the cheese you may ask? Ingredients Directions Servings “I am amazed!

Recipes baking and cooking When Chocolate was Medicine Chocolate has not always been the common confectionary we experience today. When it first arrived from the Americas into Europe in the 17th century it was a rare and mysterious substance, thought more of as a drug than as a food. Christine Jones traces the history and literature of its reception. In the seventeenth century, Europeans who had not traveled overseas tasted coffee, hot chocolate, and tea for the very first time. These mischievously potent drugs were met with widespread curiosity and concern. Chocolate was the first of the three to enter the pharmaceutical annals in Europe via a medical essay published in Madrid in 1631: Curioso Tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del chocolate by Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma. “Humoralism,” a theory of health and illness inherited from Hippocrates and Galen was still influential in 1630. While the treatise itself takes up foreign knowledge, Wadsworth’s original introductions directly address their new audience in familiar terms. Christine A.