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
       

• 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

    • Chretien de Troyes - 1190 AD

    • Geoffrey Chaucer - 1380 AD

    • Robin Hood - c.1450 AD (traditional ballad)

    • The Plymouth Pasty - 1510 AD ^{2 May 2008 11 May 2008}

    • William Shakespeare - plays written 1584-1605 AD

    • Samuel Pepys - diary entries 1660-1668 AD

    • Edward Kidder - lamb pasty, venison pasties, circa 1720 ^{28 Apr 2008}

    • Early references to pasties - 13th Century to 1746 ^{1 May 2008}

  • IV: Recent times

    • Childhood memories - tending pasty trees etc

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

  • V - The history of the Cornish pasty ^{2 Jun 2008}
     

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

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

  • The pasty tree - with photos

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

  • The croust beetle - "that bleddy thing"

  • The pasty fly - what is it? ^24Mar2008

  • The pasty famine - "a awful time"

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

  • When is croust-time? - a simple explanation

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

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

   

• Modern pasty information

  • What is a Proper Cornish Pasty? - incl. Cornish Pasty Association ^{12 Mar 2008}

  • Hands off our pasties - "Western Morning News" newspaper ^18Mar2008

    • Pasty nutritional figures - the food value of pasties ^18Mar2008

  • Modern pasties - grown & made

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

  • The Mexico connection - more than you think ^26Mar2008
    - with help from Sister Kay, Cousin Nancy and Cousin Anne

  • Tiddy oggy, tiddly oggy and Priddy oggy - pasty names ^5Apr2008

  • Oggy Night - celebrating the pasty ^25Apr2008
     

• The learnings of Mr Henry "Oggy" Trelissick:

  • I - Scholarly writings about things historical

  • II - Scholarly replies to enquiring emails

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

   

• The pasty in poetry and song

  • Ode to a Cornish Pasty - details being sought

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

  • The Oggie Man © - the Cyril Tawney song

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

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

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

• The Compleat Pastypaedia - pasties from around the world

  • Pasties by other names - 57 named pasties and pasty-like dishes worldwide ^{27 Apr 2008}

  • Do you like your pasties baked, boiled 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 .....

    • American pasties

    • Argentine pasties - the empanada

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

    • Bolivian pasties - the salteña  

    • 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   ^{28 Apr 2008}

    • 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

    • Mexican pasties - the paste ...

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

    • 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

  • 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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