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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.
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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]
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 ...
Ginsters / ˈ ɡ ɪ n s t ər z / is a company based in Callington in Cornwall, in the south-west of England.The largest pasty maker in the UK in turnover, [citation needed] it specialises in making mass-produced pasties, sausage rolls, sandwiches, pasta bowls and other savoury snacks.
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The Cornish Pasty Association is a British trade association, based in Cornwall, England. As of 2013 [update] the association included about 50 independent bakers of Cornish pasties . [ 1 ] The association successfully sought to have the name "Cornish Pasty" protected as one of the Protected geographical indications . [ 2 ]