The most northern my husband ever felt (he's only from Cheltenham) was when he was doing a shift at Trelisk hospital in Truro and tbe staff were arguing over whether to crimp the side or the top (some were from Devon)
Tell me about it - I’ve traveled the globe, lived in many places, but for the last twenty years I’ve lived about twelve miles south of the hospital where I was born. 🤣
If I ever do leave NYC, which is doubtful, I’d love to retire to Cornwall. A little cottage in Portscatho, perhaps.
fun fact - the thick crust around the edge was for miners to hold so that the posionous tin on their hands that they had been mining wouldn't contaminate the sweet sweet goodness of the pasty
Dunno, I’ve never been to Devon…hateful place. When I go to Cornwall I usually get the ferry so I don’t have to see those idiotic Kernow-plus-a-bit-of-green made-up fauxDevon flags…
Going back further, they were left on for the famous Cornish gladiators, who would sharpen the crusts and use them to fight to the death at the Minsk theatre.
The loser fell off the cliff into the sea, where fish would then eat the crusts, leading to the term “crumbs” being used in exclamation.
You guys don’t have to go to England for these. I’m from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In the 1800’s lots of Cornish miners moved here for work and brought this food with them. We have shops all over the place. My Gramma used to make the best ones. Not other’s gramma’s, MY Gramma!
Philadelphia has a savory pie shop called Stargazy, where they have pasties, sausage rolls and multitudes of pies, as well as fish n chips on Friday nights. It’s the best British food around!!
The Masons Lodge used to make them too. All the old folks would spend all day on a Wednesday making them. I’m not a Mason but their pasties were always good.
I grew up about 50 miles from Mt. Rushmore, In Lead. The reason I said your picture was beautiful, is because the ones I ate looked like the ones in the picture in this article. https://www.southdakotamagazine.com/leads-meat-pies
If you want to see my family roots in Lead, go up Sawyer Street to 708 and 710 Sawyer Street. 708 belonged to my great-grandparents. 710 belonged to my grand-parents, then to me until I sold it. My great-grandfather was the 1st Treas. of the GOP in SD, and established the Lead fire dept.
Mmm…looks amazing. My dear Cornish MIL used to make these to order. I always had mushroom, peas, potato, onion & cheese. She always had steak, kidney, potato, turnip & onion. My husband had mine & hers combined. She’d carve our initials into the pastry so we could keep them straight.
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It's a hand pie that Cornish miners carried into the coal mines. The traditional filling is pieces of beef, potatoes, rutabaga and onions, but you can find lots of different recipes nowadays that are described as a Cornish pasty. Technically, only those made in Cornwall are legally Cornish pasties.
Yes, so interesting about the crimp! It is very sturdy and the miners didn't have a place to wash up in the mines so the crimp could be held by dirty hands and left uneaten.
Unfortunately rate my pasty doesn't have a blue sky account, but if they did. I'd suggest you send em a skeet. If you're on that there book of face, feel free to
Pasties came to Mexico around 1824, specifically to the silver mines around Pachuca, Hidalgo. They are known throughout Mexico as "pastes de Pachuca" while the rest of Latin America calls them "empanadas".
My dad’s side (Moyle) came over from Cornwall a few generations ago and my grandma used to make these whenever the family would get together. Love me some pastys.
My mom grew up in the UP and if my little brother and I begged and pleaded and promised to be good for the rest of our lived, she'd make pasties for us :)
fun fact: since i had only really seen it in writing, it was the longest damn that i was unaware that "pasty" is pronounced with a short "a". i thought it was kinda like "pastry".
This brings me back to my childhood. My mom made these often. It was very common where they grew up. I traced me roots back to 1500 Finland and they immigrated to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan around 1900. Pasty’s were daily there.
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If I ever do leave NYC, which is doubtful, I’d love to retire to Cornwall. A little cottage in Portscatho, perhaps.
In other news, putting jam on your scone first is a capital offence in 2025 in Devon
And bloody right too!
The loser fell off the cliff into the sea, where fish would then eat the crusts, leading to the term “crumbs” being used in exclamation.
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Tintagel?
I am so looking forward to Yorkshire chips in curry sauce, savory sausage rolls and cask IPA.
Indian.
And one for breakfast - why not!😂
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.... I don't know what I expected to see, and I don't know why it *wasn't* a Cornish pasty.
The crimp of the pastry was originally not to be ate but for you to hold the pasty down the Tin Mines of Cornwall.
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Where's mine
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I had one of those 6 years ago in the UK, it was great! Why aren’t they well known abroad?
Yum!
--Spy before he cuts a pie, TF2.
Some are empanadas (fried), some are meat pies, some are samosas, some just savory pies.
#yum
Looks good 😋Happy Mothers Day!♥️