Jamaican Beef Patties

Ingredients

 * 2 lbs ground beef
 * ½ teaspoon Accent
 * 8 sprigs of thyme
 * 2 oz escallion
 * 2 small hot peppers
 * 1 teaspoon paprika
 * half a loaf French bread
 * 1 teaspoon salt

Directions

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