In response to the Carrot Ranch, Flash Fiction Challenge of January 4th, to write about Copper Country.
Mom always made us pasties. We grew up eating the pocket meals filled with beef, potatoes, rutabagas, and onions. Her father’s people were from Cornwall, England and that is what they ate.
Years later, I married a man whose grandmother was from Cornwall, England. He and his family ate pasties too.
One year, he took me on vacation to Copper Harbor, Michigan. Beautiful country. We saw black bears on Brockway Mountain. Enjoyed a Woody Herman concert in the haunted, Calumet theatre and we ate pasties. Because that’s what the “Cousin Jacks” and “Cousin Jennies” would eat in Copper Country.
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Traditions are such fun things to observe. Great tale.
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Thank YOU! I think I’ll look into making pasties this week.
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I can recall eating them fresh from the bakery. Good luck with your baking..
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Love the new look of your website.
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Thanks, Chuck!
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Yum! Now I’m hungry. Do you do mail order? 🙂 ❤
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Ha! They barely make it out of the oven, as my sibs are voracious in their consumption of the darn things… If I could, I’d be shipping them everywhere. ❤
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Rats 🙂
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Great response, Annette.
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Thanks Robbie! I used to think that just everybody ate pasties… I have come to learn that this is not the case.
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Lovely flash Annette. Those cornish with their pasties got everywhere. They are even here possibly because the Cornish were persuaded to come and dig our copper in our copper country. Lovely memories.
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Many thanks, Irene! Pasteis were as much a part of diet as Copper Harbor is one of the most remarkable places on earth!
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Ooooh, I love a pasty, Annette! 🙂
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May try to convince the sibs here, to make some this week…
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They are perfect for the cold weather! 🙂
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Copper Harbor is magical! And I’ve recently sat in the haunted Calumet Theater for a dance show. But the pasties are like icing on the cake in Copper Country. I know every shop in town now. 🙂 Great flash based on your family traditions!
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You truly live in God’s country!
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Pass the pasties indeed. This was delicious.
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Thank you! We’ve enough to go around
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Lovely. Being a vegetarian (unfortunately, though I’m working on it), I am not lusting after those pasties, but I definitely want to look at those black bears!
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I totally understand. Enjoy da bears! ❤
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You made me want to go and eat a pastie even though I don’t know what they are! (I love Woody Herman)
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Awesome! Yes, pasties are nothing more than a single serving, pot pie, in all honesty. Something yummy indeed! You have great taste in music
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