Posted By: Cook Chatty Cathy
Mar 1 # 130 of 170
The Ironic Chef wrote:
There is another ethnic version of the Calzone called a Runza. I'm thinking, that they are a Russian, German and Polish inspiration. The Runzas that I grew up with were a bread dough filled with sour kraut, ham and potatoes. Some make them with ground beef and cabbage. They were a nice winter comfort food.
Interesting. I believe every nationality has some sort of "Pocket" sandwich, in Michigan the Upper Peninsula folks eat something called a Pasty, a meat and veggie filled creation, it uses more of a pie dough than a yeast dough. They use beef, potatoes, turnips, carrots and seasoning wrapped in pastry and baked. As you mentioned IC they are sorta a winter comfort food. The wives used to make them for their husband lumber jacks who would keep the wrapped pasties in their pocket for lunch and it was a nice filling warm lunch in that horrid cold - there is also a Puerto Rican and Jamaican type meat filled pocket sandwich. And in Morocco they use Phyllo dough to make a similar type sandwich. I like all varieties, wether they have yeast dough or Pie type or Phyllo dough wrap.