Re: Favourite Pie?
Originally Posted by
Leia
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They are giant sized pasties, basically a complete meal in a shortcrust pastry filled with lamb, mint, potatoes, veg and leeks of course. They do also make them with beef. The tastiest ones I've had are from a shop in Llangollen.
Not proper Cornish pasties then they have meat etc one end and some sort of pudding at the other as a complete meal.
They should be crimped along the top not at the side .
Being half Cornish and spending a lot of my childhood there the history of the pastie is interesting
Way back when tin mining was the main industry in Cornwall the miners spent all day in the mines, so the pastie had to provide the main meal.
What is not commonly known is the tradition they had.
At the end of the day when the mines were left for the day the miners always left one end of a pastie on the rocks for the "Knockers".
The "Knockers " as they were called were like elves and goblins in Cornish terms, and they made sure the mine was safe overnight for the miners the next day.