My great grandmother grew up on a farm near Traverse City in Mancelona. We ate a lot of the same stuff that’s in a pasty minus the wrap but I assume that’s because she was German and not Welsh.
I’m German. It took me a while to get into ‘wrapping’ my food in pastry or potato pancakes once I started cooking for ‘The Turnip’ (as he is AFFECTIONATELY called...)
However, I make a mean Sauerbraten...and that’s basically beef wrapped around a pickle, LOL!
Meat on the outside = Good.
Meat inside a crust = Bad.