STEWPEAS PATTIE

Way back in 2017 I mentioned (or maybe ranted) about StewPeas patties. The jest of my article was why, why ruin this traditional Jamaican snack?!

Well I had the opportunity to try a stewpeas pattie.

Amazing!

If I hadn't taken the top off the pattie and counted the 8 red beans I would have sworn it was a beef pattie put into the wrong wrapper.

I won't be running to the shop for them, but I for one will eat another if the opportunity arises. 

Pastry - the pastry was good, light, flaky, melt in the mouth - 4

Shape - Traditional, with slight crackle edge.  - 4.5

Filling - was supposed to be red beans. I counted 8 in total. Great colour, but mostly filler rather than beans filling it.

Flavour - average Caribbean flavouring. It had flavour. A hint of pepper -  4.5

Score 13/15  😁

TO JERK OR NOT TO JERK

Don't worry there are no jerk patties - yet! Please correct me if they have sneaked pass my radar.

I found this article from an old Newspaper. I think it was the Jamaican Express

With the amount of so called jerk foods that are being advertised in the UK I want to share with you a section of this article. Yous that are cooks will know that rice, crisp and the multitude of other foods that are claiming to be 'jerked' would have a hard time surviving the real jerk cooking experience;
"... Although the spice paste itself (made from thyme, onion, scallion, peppers and pimento) is crucial to the taste of jerk. The method of slow cooking it over a wood fire on pimento (all spice) sticks adds that one of a kind smoky flavour unique to jerk cooked in Jamaica..."

So there is a chance the correct spices have been used but let's stop calling the foods jerk when they haven't been slow cooked or anywhere near a wood or pimento fire!

Thank you and rant over

Anne's Delicious

Well, well!
Nothing more to say than delicious.

They use to be on Silver Street, near the bridge back in the day.
Now she is retired and at home baking up a storm. 

Seem to me home made patties are beating yous hands down!

Lincoln's Bakery. N18

Lincoln's bakery
287 Brettenham Road
London N18 2HF.       020 8245 2369

I did not go to the actual bakers but had this pattie at a gathering. Enquiries to it's origins was Lincolns bakery, which had been nominated by Gayle M some time ago as the best patties around.

Pastry - is more short bread than flaky but melt in the mouth with flavour - 3.5
Shape - good - 5
Flavour - beef - looks like meat Horay! Full of Caribbean flavour with a pepper after bite - 5

Total score 13.5

A special thanks to Jackie and Conrad for their input. After our conversation I am confident that this is an objective score.

RAINBOW BAKERY

596 Kingsland Road
Hackney
E8 4AH

0207 923 1706

Long time shop still holding their own and keeping standards high.

I am particularly impressed that there vegetable patties are in wholemeal skin/pastry rather than the same pastry as the meat pattie.

Shape  3 - Not quite half circle & crimped but you can see the intention. 

Flavour  5 - perfect!

Pastry  5 - melt in your mouth, taste.  

Very nice surprise to get a good pattie

Total score 13

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NOT A PATTIE! 😀

At first glace you'd think this is a pattie. The filling is pumpkin. A sweet mixture of pumpkin with raisins wrapped in pastry. In a shape that I associate with Caribbean pattie, but it is a sweet pie.

Because it has not claimed to be a pattie I won't be rating it in The World of Patties.

I just had to include the pumpkin pie. It is an extension of my rant in 'Traditional Cuisine - Just Saying (April 2017)' about pattie fillings. So far fillings have been ackee, stew peas, callaloo, lamb, chicken, cheese, beef with cheese and shrimp and I would not be surprised if there are other fillings that I have not come across yet. As stated in past blogs I believe beef and mixed vegetables are the only two true pattie fillings.

 My question is when is a 'pattie' not a pattie?

TO MUCH PATTIE

When you find a good pattie - you might be tempted to have to much pattie LOL!!

I will be getting back on the hunt in the near future this is just a warning to Pattie shops to say I am back on the prowl.

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JUICIE PATTIES JAMAICA

While in Negril we popped into a patty shop. Of course I had a beef pattie, but spotted that they also make Ackee, Cheese and Shrimp patties.

The fillings are becoming more extravagant to cater for more tastes. The snack has taken on a whole new role. Are you tempted to embrace this trend of diluting the traditional beef or vegetable pattie with new fillings? 

I still maintain these different fillings should be named something other than pattie. Any suggestions?

Maybe 'Jamaican pastries' could be an optional name/identity? Unlike Danish pastries that are sweet the Jamaican pastry could become the new savories wrapped in pastry. At least when you ask for a pattie you would know your choice is beef or vegetable. 

I have not diverted from the purpose of this blog to find the best tasting pattie  in the UK.

The hunt goes ever on.

BAMBOO HUT

479A High Road Leyton stone
London
E11 4JU.

020 3441 7171

Bamboo Hut in Leytonstone caters for weddings and parties.

They also have a delivery service minimum order £15 within 3 miles of the shop.

Beef Patties 

Lots of pastry making the filling seem like a little spread inside of the pattie.

They don't make there own patties but when I asked who the supplier was the young lady serving did not know who they got the patties from. I suspect they get them from Taste Buds or the same bakery that supplies Taste Buds - very similar shape. Although the baker may of had an off day this time.

Pastry - the pastry was good, light, flaky, melt in the mouth. There was more pastry than filling. - 4

Shape - it was more like a Cornish pastie shape than a pattie. It just needed another fold on the edge to be recognised as a Cornish pastie.  - 2.5

Filling - it was meaty but a small spread of it.

Flavour - bland with mild Caribbean flavouring -  3

Total score 9.5