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Cornish pasties at Cornish bakehouse in Bath. The pasty is regarded as the national dish of Cornwall, [23] [24] [25] and an early reference is from a New Zealand newspaper: In Cornwall, there is a common practice among those cottagers who bake at home of making little pasties for the dinners of those who may be working at a distance in the fields.
The name Mr. Pastie derives from pasty a Cornish word for a type of pie commonly taken by miners to work in the mines of Cornwall. [7] Some of these miners emigrated to the United States and settled in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, where slate was also mined (the "Slate Belt"), bringing their traditional recipes with them. [4]
The pasty became particularly popular in Devonport and Plymouth, where sailors called them “tiddly oggies” (also referred to as Tiddy Oggies or a Tiddy Oggy). Tiddly in naval slang means ‘proper’, a common adjective and adverb used by Cornish people, and oggie was the term for a pastie in cornwall, so “tiddly oggie” meant proper pasty.
Cornwall being a peninsula surrounded by historically well-stocked seas, with a significant fishing industry, has meant that fish dishes form a major part of the historical and modern recipes in Cornwall. The iconic dish of Cornwall, [1] the pasty, has its roots in another historical industry within the county, this being mining.
The pasty is as popular in Devon as it is in Cornwall, and the earliest known record for the recipe was from the city of Plymouth in 1510, on the Devon-Cornish border. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] This is one of the principal sources of rivalry between the two counties, which in fact form a cultural continuum across the Westcountry ; however, pasties made in ...
The crust at first when I started baking them that wasn't very pretty, but it smelled like a pasty and it tasted like a pasty so that was good enough for me and then I got older and wiser and better."
Geoff Ginster having no choice moved to Cornwall and started his Cornish Pasty business in 1969. They started the business in a near-derelict egg-packing station, with a staff of four. [3] Geoffrey Ginster started production of pasties from a "secret recipe" he claimed to have obtained from a ship's cook.
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