A pasty from Cornwall

A pasty from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

A Cornish pasty or Cornish pastie is a type of pie, originating in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is an oven-cooked pastry case traditionally filled with diced meat—nowadays beef mince (ground beef) or steak—potato, onion and swede (rutabaga). Some pasties contain carrot but this is not part of the traditional recipe; the presence of carrot in a pasty is usually an indication of inferior quality. It has a semicircular shape, caused by folding a circular pastry sheet over the filling. One edge is crimped to form a seal. In Devon, a Devon Pasty is very similar but the crimp is at the top of the pasty rather than the side. Image File history File links BlueAnchorPasty. ... Image File history File links BlueAnchorPasty. ... Image File history File links A Cornish Pasty from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. ... Image File history File links A Cornish Pasty from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. ... The Upper Peninsula of Michigan, also known as The Upper Peninsula, The U.P. (or The UP), and Above the Bridge by Michiganders, refers to the northern peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. ... A slice of strawberry-rhubarb pie à la mode A pie is a baked dish, with a baked shell usually made of pastry that covers or completely contains a filling of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards, nuts, or other sweet or savoury ingredient. ... Motto: Onan hag oll (Cornish: One and all) Cornwall, England Geography Status Ceremonial and (smaller) Non-metropolitan county Region South West England Population - Total (2004 est. ... An oven is an enclosed compartment for heating, baking or drying. ... Pastry the name given to various kinds of dough made from ingredients such as flour, butter and eggs, that are rolled out thinly and used as the base for baked goods. ... Raw ground beef Ground beef, or, in British English beef mince, is a meat product, made of beef finely chopped by a meat grinder. ... A steak served with a pat of butter and mushrooms A pair of ribeye steaks being grilled A steak is a slice from a larger piece of meat, usually beef. ... Binomial name Solanum tuberosum L. The potato (plural form: potatoes) (Solanum tuberosum) is a perennial plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, grown for its starchy tuber. ... Binomial name Allium cepa L. Onion in the general sense can be used for any plant in the Genus Allium but used without qualifiers usually means Allium cepa L., also called the garden onion. ... The inner harbour, Brixham, south Devon, at low tide Devon is a large county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ...

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Pasties are usually hand-made and sold in bakeries or (less often) specialist pasty shops. It is common in some areas for pasties to be eaten "on-the-move" from the paper bag they are sold in, making them essentially a fast-food. Bakery foods A baker is someone who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar foods. ...

They are still very popular throughout Devon and Cornwall, and also in the rest of the United Kingdom. Pasties are sold in supermarkets, but these are mass produced and often taste entirely different from authentic Cornish pasties. Outside of the UK, they are also very common in Grass Valley, California, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA, and parts of Wisconsin, USA, where they arrived with Cornish miner immigrants, and are now a significant tourist draw for the area. Pasties were also introduced by Cornish miner immigrants in the 19th century to South Australia (particularly the Yorke Peninsula), and continue to be popular. They can also be found in the Mexican city of Pachuca, where they are thought to have been introduced by emigrating English coal miners in the 19th century. They are commonly served with different ingredients, such as jalapeño peppers. The inner harbour, Brixham, south Devon, at low tide Devon is a large county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... Motto: Onan hag oll (Cornish: One and all) Cornwall, England Geography Status Ceremonial and (smaller) Non-metropolitan county Region South West England Population - Total (2004 est. ... Exterior appearance of typical American supermarket (a Safeway) Supermarket produce section A supermarket or grocery store is a store that sells a wide variety of food. ... Mass production is the production of large amounts of standardised products on production lines. ... Grass Valley is a city located in Nevada County, California. ... The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is the northern of the two major land masses that comprise the U.S. state of Michigan. ... State nickname: Badger State Official languages None Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Governor Jim Doyle (D) Senators Herb Kohl (D) Russ Feingold (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 23rd 169,790 km² 17 Population  - Total (2000)  - Density Ranked 18th 5,453,896 38. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: United for the Common Wealth Nickname: Festival State Other Australian states and territories Capital Adelaide Government Governor Premier Const. ... The Yorke Peninsula is a peninsula located north-west and west of Adelaide in South Australia, Australia, between Spencer Gulf on the west and Gulf St. ... Pachuca (elevation: 2,426 meters) is the capital of the Mexican state of Hidalgo. ... Emigration is the act and the phenomenon of leaving ones native country to settle abroad. ... Wyoming coal mine Coal mining is the extraction of coal from the Earth for use as fuel. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Binomial name Capsicum annuum The jalapeño is a small to medium-sized chile pepper that is prized for the hot, burning sensation that it produces in the mouth when eaten. ...

Pasty is not pronounced as if it had to do with paste, but rather as IPA /ˈpæsti/, /ˈpɑːsti/, or something similar, depending on dialect. Symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet as used for English. ...

Oggy is a slang term for a Cornish pasty—see Oggy Oggy Oggy. The Oggy Oggy Oggy (or possibly Oggie Oggie Oggie) chant and its numerous variations are often heard at sporting events, political rallies and around boy scout and girl guide campfires. ...

History

By the 1800s the pasty had evolved to meet the needs of tin miners, as tin mining was a major Cornish industry at the time. Tradition claims that it was originally made as lunch ('croust' in the Cornish language) for Cornish miners who were unable to return to the surface to eat. The story goes that, covered in dirt from head to foot (possibly including some arsenic often found with tin), they could hold the pasty by the folded crust and eat the rest of the pasty without touching it, discarding the dirty pastry. The pastry they threw away was supposed to appease the capricious spirits in the mines, the knockers, who otherwise might lead miners into danger. A related tradition holds that it is bad luck for fishermen to take pasties to sea. 1800 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Lunch is a meal that is taken at noon or in the early afternoon. ... The Cornish language (in Cornish: Kernowek, Kernewek, Curnoack) is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages that includes Welsh, Breton, the extinct Cumbric and perhaps the hypothetical Ivernic. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine This article is about mineral extraction. ... Knockers, also known as Tommy-Knockers in the USA, are gnome-like beings that inhabit mines. ... Categories: Stub ...

The pasty's dense, folded pastry stayed hot until lunchtime and, when carried close to the body, helped the miner stay warm. In such pasties meat would normally be at one end and a fruit filling at the other, separated by a pastry partition. Traditional bakers in former mining towns will still bake pasties with fillings to order, marking the customer's initials with raised pastry. This practice was started because the miners used to eat one half of their pasty for breakfast and leave the remaining half for lunch, meaning that a way to identify the pasties was needed. Some mines kept large ovens to keep the pasties warm until mealtime. It is said that a good pasty should be strong enough to endure being dropped down a mine shaft.

For centuries the Cornish have been filling pasties with a wide variety of fillings. In 1985 a group of Young Farmers in Cornwall spent 7 hours making a record-breaking pasty - over 32ft long. This was believed to have been beaten in 1999 when bakers in Falmouth made their own giant pasty during the town's first ever pasty festival. This article is about the year. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Map sources for Falmouth, Cornwall at grid reference SW810325 Falmouth (Cornish: Aberfal) is a seaport on the south coast of Cornwall in the United Kingdom. ...

Cultural references

It was said that the devil would never dare to cross the River Tamar into Cornwall for fear of ending up as a filling in a Cornish pasty. An Arthurian romance by Chretien de Troyes from the 1100s, set in Cornwall and written for the Countess of Champagne includes the line: "Next Guivret opened a chest and took out two pasties. 'My friend,' said he, 'Now try a little of these cold pasties ...' " The Tamar is a river in south western England, that forms most of the border between Devon (to the east) and Cornwall (to the west). ... King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. ... Chr tien de Troyes wrote in Champagne, France, during the last half of the twelfth century. ... Events William II of England dies in a hunting accident - Henry I becomes King of England King Henry I proclaims the Charter of Liberties, one of the first examples of a constitution. ... The Counts of Champagne ruled the region of Champagne, France from 1022 to 1314. ...

There is also reference to the pasty in three of Shakespeare's plays. In The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1 Scene 1 the Page says "Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner: come gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness". In All's Well That Ends Well, Act IV Scene III, Parrolles states: "I will confess to what I know without constraint: if ye pinch me like a pasty , I can say no more". Finally, in Titus Andronicus, Titus bakes Chiron and Demetrius's bodies into a pasty, and forces their mother to eat them. William Shakespeare—born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)—has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in English. ... The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare featuring the fat knight Falstaff. ... Alls Well That Ends Well is a comedy by William Shakespeare, which is also considered one of his problem plays. ... Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeares earliest tragedy. ...

External links

• History of the Pasty: "The easiest way to describe a pasty, is a pot pie without the pot..."
• Pasties in Michigan's Upper Peninsula: Foodways, Interethnic Relations, and Regionalism, by Yvonne R. Lockwood and William Lockwood
• Pasties in Wisconsin, by Dorothy Hodgson
• Detailed recipe for making Cornish Pasty
• Recipes, and history of the pasty in "Pasties, Plain and Simple" by Ken Anderson