The Cornish Pasty

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Making pasties started after the ancient pasty forests were cleared to make way for other crops, 6,000 years ago.
The location of the remaining pasty trees is a closely guarded secret, like the Plymouth Pear.

• Home page and welcome

  • Front cover of the Pastypaedia

  • A Cornish welcome to you .....

    • ..... and if you av'n got time, read the joke
       

• History and origins of the Cornish Pasty:

  • I: On the origin of life, the universe & the pasty

  • II: Pre-historical times

    • Cattedown Man, "The Herald" newspaper

  • III: Historical times
    The pasty in old literature, also Cornwall/Devon rivalry

    • 1170 AD - Chretien de Troyes

    • 1200's to 1746 - Early references to pasties 

    • 1296 AD - First recorded use of "paftey" >>>>>>>>>>>>>

    • circa 1300 AD - Le Viandier de Taillevent

    • 1300's AD - The Forme of Cury

    • 1380 AD - Geoffrey Chaucer - first "pafty" in print  >>>>>>>>>>

    • 1393 AD - Le Ménagier de Paris / The Goodman of Paris

    • 1450 AD - Robin Hood (traditional ballad)

    • 1510 AD - The Plymouth Pasty - including the 1510 hand-written word >>>>>>>>>

    • 1584-1605 AD - William Shakespeare (dates plays written)

    • 1660-1668 AD - Samuel Pepys diary entries

    • 1720 AD - Edward Kidder including the (first?) D-shaped turn-over pasty >>>>>>>

    • 1746 AD - The earliest record of a pasty in Cornwall

    • 1449-2001 - Pasties in the National Archives
      NB - It is believed that prior to 1720 AD (Edward Kidder) that references to "pasties" were probably references to pies that were baked in high-sided, inedible, pre-baked huff paste (hard pastry) coffyns.

      • Pasty coffyns - and animated pies e.g. four-and-twenty blackbirds

      • Pastry coffyns - including huff paste

  • IV: Recent times

    • Childhood memories - tending pasty trees etc.

      • Scilly gig Bonnet, "The Cornishman" newspaper & family history

  • V: The history of the Cornish pasty 

    • Official definition of "pasty" - Oxford English Dictionary entry
       

• Things only a Cornishman can tell 'ee about pasties*

  • Fossil pasties - 'tis true if you believe it!

  • Hen and cock pasties - about the different forms of pasty

  • Hen and cock pasties - the truth - more about the different forms of pasty  

  • How the meat got in the wild pasty - a delicate matter

  • Pasties at Camelot

  • Pasty CAM - "live" pictures from a pasty orchard

  • The croust beetle - "that bleddy thing"

  • The pasty famine - "a awful time"

  • The pasty fly - what is it?

  • The pasty tree - with photos

  • When is croust-time? - a simple explanation

    • Cornish dialect dictionary - help with Cornish-English as it may be spoke

    * Doing 'omework, are 'ee, childern? I would be careful about using this section of pages
      because Teacher may not believe you!

   

• Modern pasty information

  • 1929 pasty recipes

  • Chocolate pasties

  • Cornwall Pasty Championships  5 Mar 2012

  • Crantock Bakery - a visit

  • Giant pasties

    • Cornish rugby giant pasties

  • Hands off our pasties - "Western Morning News" newspaper

    • Pasty nutritional figures - the food value of pasties

  • Hayle - pasty capital of the world - Cousin Margret's mural

  • How to crimp a Cornish pasty

  • Making Cornish pasties - on YouTube  

  • Modern pasties - grown & made

  • Oggy Night - celebrating the pasty

  • Pasties with "afters" .....
    also called Two-course pasty, Double-ended pasty, Cornish miner's pasty, Cornish whole-meal pasty, Dinner-and-dessert pasty, Sweet-and-savoury pasty, Iron miner's pasty, Finnish miner's pasty, Great pasty

    • Pasties with "afters" - I - First attempts  

    • Pasties with "afters" - II - Third attempt, success

    • Pasties with "afters" - III - On an American TV show

    • Pasties with "afters" - IV - Finnish Miner's Pasty

    • Pasties with "afters" - V - Cornish Miner's Pasty

    • Pasties with "afters" - VI - American Iron Miners' Pasties

    • Pasties with "afters" - VII - Cornish whole meal pasty

    • Pasties with "afters" - VIII - Tin Miner Pasty (Morrisons Supermarket)  17 Sep. 2012

  • Pasty crimper - kitchen tool

  • Pasty day at Morvah  A community celebration

  • Pasty-flavoured crisps

  • Pasty Tax 2012 23 April 2012

  • Pasty Tax - 2 1 May 2012

  • Pasty Tax Aftermath 4 October 2012  

  • PGI - Protected Geographical Indicator status

  • Ron Dewdney's Devonport Naval Base political pasty

  • The Mexico connection - more than you think
    - with help from Sister Kay, Cousin Nancy and Cousin Anne

  • Tiddy oggy, tiddly oggy and Priddy oggy - pasty names

  • What is a Proper Cornish Pasty? - incl. Cornish Pasty Association

  • World Pasty Championships, 2012 3 April 2012
     

• The learnings of Mr Henry "Oggy" Trelissick
  Member of the Ancient Order of Pasty Antiquarians:

  • I - Scholarly writings about things historical

  • II - Scholarly replies to enquiring emails

  • III - Oggianophyceae - a learnéd treatise (in draft)

  • IV - About pasties, pastes, pies, pastez, pâte, pâté, en croûte etc.

  • V - Pasty coffyns - Egyptians, Greeks, Romans .....

   

• The pasty in poetry and song

  • Ode to a Pasty © - by Ted Gundry

  • Ode to a Cornish Pasty - by John T Barber

  • Mother's Pasties © - by Jim Davey, from "The Book of Hayle"

  • Pasty Tax! © - by Graham Coad 20 May 2012

  • The Oggie Man © - the Cyril Tawney song

  • The Pasty Recipe © - Cousin Mark's poem, written in Hayle

  • The Pasty Song © - sung by DJ Dubb aka Derek Wright

  • There's something about a pasty © - by Brenda Wootton, suggested by Cousin Jonathan

   

• Pasty books

  • Cornish Recipe Book, 1929

  • The Pasty Book - Hettie Merrick, 1995

  • The Cornish Pasty - Stephen Hall, 2001

  • The Official Encyclopaedia of the Cornish Pasty - Les Merton, 2003

  • Pasties - Lindsey Bareham, 2008

  • The Little Book of the Pasty - Emma Mansfield, 2011

  • A Story of Plymouth's Past(ies) 2012 27 September 2012

  • How to Make an Award-Winning Cornish Pasty - Billy Deakin A publishing project in progress, March 2013 24 March 2013 

   

• Pasties in Devon - pasties from Cornwall's neighbouring county

  • The Devon Pasty
     

• The Compleat Pastypaedia - pasties from around the world

  • Pasties by other names - 57 named pasties and pasty-like dishes worldwide

  • Do you like your pasties - baked, boiled, steamed or fried?

  • Pasties and pasty-like dishes from Devon & other places - this page includes comment on Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay & Venezuela, also links to .....

    • Afghan pasties - bolani 27 December 2012

    • American pasties

    • Argentine pasties - the empanada

    • Asian pasties - Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan & Indonesian - the samosa, samboosa, sambusac, chamusa

    • Bolivian pasties - the salteña  

    • Canadian pasties

    • Caribbean pasties - West Indies - the patty

    • Chinese, Japanese & Korean pasties - the jiaozi, gyōza (Japanese)

    • Devon pasties

    • East European Jewish pasties - the knish

    • English pasties - a London pasty, Bedfordshire clanger, Ironbridge pasty, Priddy oggy, Leeds pasties

    • Finnish pasties - the kalakukko & the Karelian karjanpiirakat

    • French/Breton pasties - pâté (en croûte), pastez, chausson

    • German pasties - the bierock & runza

    • Greek pasties - spanakotiropita, spanakotiropites

    • Irish pasties

    • Italian pasties - the calzone & panzarotti

    • Kyrgyzstani pasties - the somsat

    • Maltese pasties - sold as "Kornish" pasties

    • Mexican pasties - the paste ...

    • Middle East, North & East African pasties - the sambusac, simbusak or samboussa

    • New Zealand pasties

    • Polish or Slavic pasties
      - the pierogi, perogi, perogy, piroghi, pirogi, pyrohy, pieroshki or piroshki

    • Russian pasties - pelmeni

    • Scottish pasties - the Forfar bridie

    • Spanish & Portuguese pasties - the empanada / empanadilla / pastelito

    • Turkish pasties - börek and regional variations
      NB - these nested bullet-listed links do not change colour!

      • Albanian pasties - the byrek

      • Armenian pasties - the boereg

      • Bulgarian pasties - the Бюрек, byurek

      • Greek pasties - the Μπουρέκι, bouréki, or Μπουρεκάκι, bourekáki

      • Israeli pasties - the bourekas

      • Russian pasties - the cheburek

      • Tunisian pasties - the brick

      • Yugoslavia (former) - the burek                         

        • Bosnian pasties - the burek (rolled)

        • Serbian pasties - the burek (round)

    • Ukrainian pasties - vareniki

    • Uzbek pasties - a pasty served in Uzbekistan, samsa & manty

    • Welsh pasties - with onion and traditional Welsh leek
       

• Pasty miscellany

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  • Talking pasties - next to the Yarns page .....

  • Yarns & folklore - things that may not be true about the pasty, honest!
     

• Pasty links

  • Links to pasty growers (if they can be persuaded) & bakers of fine pasties, also links to Cornish breweries (good for washing down your pasty) ..... and other items

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