paddfoot
Assistant Cook
ive been given a challange to make cornish pasties, first, what are they and second, help me make them, i have no idea what they are supposed to taste like. thanx
SC,I have had pasties at Cousin Jacks Pasties in Grass Valley, CA. They are really heavy, stick to your ribs kind of food. They make many kinds of pasties, but the traditional are filled with steak and vegetables. Cornish miners emigrated to Grass Valley to work in the gold mines when the copper and tin mines in Cornwall were declining. The miners liked the pasties because they were a meal in one and they could eat them with only touching part of the pasties with their dirty hands. Then they would throw away the crust of the pastie that they touched, it was supposed to appease the spirits that might lead the miners to danger in the mines.
It's a thick turnover -- baked pastry filled with meat, onions, potatoes, etc. Very good stuff if made well. I have a recipe someplace...
Oh, and it is pastie, pronounced just like the things stripper used to wear.
Live and learn. The only place I've had them in this area called them paste-ees. Of course, they also serve Guinness ice cold.Actually, no .. it is NOT pronounced the same ... it is pastie (pronounced like past-tense)....
Purists use good malt vinegar!
Vince
I grew up in Grass Valley Ca. When I was in high school one of the local pasty makers (King Richards) would send me to the competition to bring them samples.That does sound like an interesting complement to a pasty, although I never ever had a single request for it. I can't wait to try that!
We just eat them straight or maybe with a side of chips (translate to fries if you are from over the pond)
One of my cooking classes makes pasties with a pork & apple filling.