Cornish Pastie

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Cumberland sausage has the same protection, so it is now possible to buy such "delights" as "Westmoreland" and "Lakeland" sausage.
 

ianrauk

Tattooed Beat Messiah
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Rides Ti2
I so have the need for a Ginsters Pastie now...
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subaqua

What’s the point
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Leytonstone
I so have the need for a Ginsters Pastie now...
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. I found a pube in one once, probably the closest thing to meat one will ever see. :tongue:

if you are despertate nip to a mainline station in London and get a west cornwall pasty company one. they are bearable. the beef and stilton pasties are good
 

ianrauk

Tattooed Beat Messiah
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. I found a pube in one once, probably the closest thing to meat one will ever see. :tongue:

if you are despertate nip to a mainline station in London and get a west cornwall pasty company one. they are bearable. the beef and stilton pasties are good

The station ones are good post pub/football munchy.. however they are cooked to nuclear volume.. many a time I have removed the skin from inside my gob because they were so bloody hot.
 

subaqua

What’s the point
Location
Leytonstone
The station ones are good post pub/football munchy.. however they are cooked to nuclear volume.. many a time I have removed the skin from inside my gob because they were so bloody hot.


agreed on all bits there. always find bits of pastry in shirt pockets on saturday morning after works night outs .

wish i was close to a staion but out here in stalag luft olympic park theres nothing remotley local.
 
But I thought that historians have said that "Cornish" Pasties actually orginated in Devon (lights blue touch paper and gracefully retires).

Guardian article 12/11/06:

They have proudly borne the name of Cornwall to every part of the globe and become a culinary mainstay for Britain and many parts of America and Australia. Yet Cornish pasties are imposters, it transpires. They really come from Devon, historians argued last week.

As suggestions go, it is one of the most regionally inflammatory claims that could be made: the equivalent to saying Rangers and Celtic are really Edinburgh clubs, or Yorkshire puddings are from Lancashire.

Nevertheless Dr Todd Gray, chairman of the Friends of Devon's Archives, insists he is right. The pasty is a Devonian delicacy and Cornwall stole it. His claim is based on a document found in the historic Audit Book and Receivers Accounts for the Borough of Plymouth, which dates back to the 16th century.

Dr Gray said he spotted four key lines of text which refer to the financial cost of making a pasty, using venison from the Mount Edgcumbe estate just across the Tamar River in Devon. The words date back to 1510. So Dr Gray contacted the Cornwall Record Office and found that its earliest record of a pasty recipe was in 1746. Thus Devon wins the pasty war by a clear 200 years, he concluded. 'This is one of Plymouth's ancient 16th-century documents which has never been properly presented to the public. This is a great joy for me as an historian uncovering local history,' he said.

It was also a great joy for him to put one over on Cornwall, one suspects. For those of Cornish origins, however, the discovery has gone down like a cup of cold suet.

'There will always be debates about the origin of the pasty; one theory in parts of Cornwall is that it almost goes back to the beginning of time,' said Les Merton, author of The Official Encyclopaedia of the Cornish Pasty. Angie Coombs, spokesman for the Cornish Pasty Association, agreed: 'There has been a continual argument regarding the origins of the pasty and who was the first person actually to make it.

'In medieval times they always used pastry as a vessel for serving - they would eat the insides and throw the pastry away. I think it was going on as early as the 1100s, and this argument about who was making it which side of the border will go on and on.' In fact, the Cornish pasty turns out to have a lengthy global pedigree. These semi-circles of meat and vegetable were favoured by miners from south-west England who exported them to America and Australia. It is still said a good pasty should be strong enough to survive being dropped down a mine shaft.
 

slowmotion

Quite dreadful
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I was told that the virtually impenetrable and wholly indigestible pastry was packaging and was never intended to be eaten. The idea was that a Cornishman could take his lunch down the mine and not contaminate it with the evil toxic metallic gunk that was sticking to his fingers. Eating a complete pasty is like getting your supper from a chippie and eating it, including the newspaper it came wrapped in. It's just wrong.
 

Mr Phoebus

New Member
I was told that the virtually impenetrable and wholly indigestible pastry was packaging and was never intended to be eaten. The idea was that a Cornishman could take his lunch down the mine and not contaminate it with the evil toxic metallic gunk that was sticking to his fingers. Eating a complete pasty is like getting your supper from a chippie and eating it, including the newspaper it came wrapped in. It's just wrong.




The pastry was eaten. That was the whole point of the crimping. The crimping was to get a hold of the pastry so the rest (clean) could be eaten.
 
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