Jamaican Beef Patties

Description
An international combination of real beef, herbs, spices, and French bread is great on appetizers, lunch, or dinner, and delivers a red-hot aroma that it relishes.

Ingredients

 * 2 lbs. ground beef
 * ½ teaspoon Accent
 * 8 sprigs of thyme
 * 2 oz. escallion or (1 green onion)
 * 2 small hot peppers
 * 3 teaspoons paprika
 * half a loaf French bread
 * 1 teaspoon salt

Directions

 * 1) Grind the escallion and hot peppers in a mincing mill. Add to ground beef with salt.
 * 2) Place meat in a saucepan, making a well in the center into 4 sprigs of thyme.
 * 3) Cook without adding any water or fat until meat has lost its broth and the only certain amount of oil remains.
 * 4) Pour off excess oil and add this to the paprika to be used later on, as strained for coloring meat.
 * 5) While meat is being cooked, pour sufficient cold water over bread in a saucepan to cover and soak for a few minutes, then squeeze dry, saving water.
 * 6) Pass bread through the mincing mill and return the ground bread and water with 4 sprigs of thyme and cook until bread is dry. Combine meat and cooked bread.
 * 7) Add paprika with sufficient quantity to color the meat to taste.
 * 8) Cook together for a further 20 minutes; add Accent.
 * 9) Remove from fire. Cool for filling pastry circles. Serve hot with other dishes.