Mary’s Farm Pasties

Mary Starkey is an instinctive cook who genuinely loves baking, drawing on generations of knowledge passed down through the women in her family. But her early efforts in the kitchen were not always successful:

When I was real little, about nine or ten, we were on a market garden at Lenswood and my mum would go out into the garden and I would be inside making a cake. I would think what could be in it and I would make up the recipe. We had to eat lots of custard an