Submitted by Pat King, Seattle, Washington In 1900, my grandmother Maud Olive Medsker came to Butte, Montana, from Indiana and married Martin Setzer, who was from Kentucky. In all the years of their marriage, they never quit arguing about who won the Civil War. Meanwhile, my grandmother learned to make pasties from her Welsh neighbors. Butte was a mining town and every man who worked in the mines carried his dinner in a bucket. Their meal had to be hearty because those hard-working men, many who eventually died of the “con,” worked 12 hours a day in the mines. My grandmother taught my mother to make pasties, my mother taught me, and I taught my daughters. I am old now, 86, but back when I was in my 60s, they were the most favorite food of all for family gatherings. We didn’t make them often. They were a lot of work …