The Pasty

[Beanz]

After sex and beer, Pasties are possibly the nicest things on earth. As a proud Janner, I would argue that Devon ones are the best, like my Gran used to make, but a Cornish one can be just as scrummy.

History,
Recipes
And
Photographs will follow.

[Dia bando]

After sex and beer, Pasties are possibly the nicest things on earth. As a proud Janner, I would argue that Devon ones are the best, like my Gran used to make, but a Cornish one can be just as scrummy.

History,
Recipes
And
Photographs will follow.

Sex and a pasty and beer , what better in what order I would make a pig of myself, lets see beer pasty
and sex or beer sex and a pasty, What combination I don't Know, one thing I do know all them crumbs
and beer stains etc, I wonder would Missy wash the sheets after.!

[Beanz]

A Cornish Pasty







A Devon Pasty






You will notice a distinct difference. The Traditional Cornish is crimped along the side whereas the Devon is sporting a top crimp. This is supposed to be the way to identify where the pasty was born but is not a very reliable identification method. I have seen pasties in both counties crimped similarly, with much the same contents. They are both delish.

[Beanz]

Here is a huge pasty, a whopper made by Ron Dewdney the infamous Plymouth Pasty Maker behind Ron Dewdneys and brother of equally infamous Ivor Dewdney Plymouth Pasty maker.

[Beanz]

It should be made with shortcrust pastry using lard

The pastry should be circular and then folded over to make a semicircular D shape

It should contain Beef skirt,potatoe,turnip (swede) onion and be seasoned with salt and pepper.

[Beanz]

The following ingredients should not be found in a pasty

Carrots
Chicken
Tandoori Chicken
lamb

The correct contents should be sliced or diced but never minced.

If you really must a cheese and onion is acceptable and a home made traditional split with apple in one end and savoury the other is fine

[Beanz]

Further reading

Welcome to the Cornish Pasty Association

History of Cornish Pasties

The Lizard Pasty Shop presents The Cornish Pasty

McDonald's starts food fight by calling British pasty a meat pie | Business | guardian.co.uk

[Beanz]

A pasty Joke

Plymouth Argyle have a new goalkeeper

Ivor Dewdney

You can't get past ee

[Beanz]

[Beanz]

Pasty Competition

You choose Pilgrims to supply pasties at Plymouth Argyle's Home Park this season | This is Plymouth

[Beanz]

A Pasty song

[Beanz]

They eat em in Mexico

[Beanz]

They have a crust so that Tin Miners could hold this in grubby poisonous hands and toss it away after munching the contents. The original would have savoury in one end and sweet in tuther. Yum.

[greynotsoold]

There are at least 3 shops here, in Butte, that sell only pastys (no "-ies" to avoid confusion), and just about every restaurant serves them at least one night a week. On those nights you have to call your order in during the morning. In the old mining days they had a saying that, if there was a pasty in your lunch box, your wife still loved you. On top of the Continental Divide, over looking Butte, is the 90 foot "Our Lady of the Rockies" statue. It was built by money accumulated at countless pasty sales. My aunt estimates that she herself made nearly 10,000 of them over the years.
My friend grew up in Minneapolis, and a guy moved there from Butte and opened a pasty shop, leaving my friend with a life-long addiction he has trouble feeding in Southern California. When I lived in Phoenix a pasty shop opened in Tempe, but, alas, they were "gourmet" and really not very good at all.

[0james0]

Not sure if many have tried to buy a pasty t'up North in the UK?

I went to a bakery and was presented with these weird square flat things, labelled as a pasty, but not even close.

I have friends who ask us to bring Pasty's to them whenever we visit.

@Greenbeanz, do you know the story between the two Dewdney brothers? I've always wondered, never knew. I'm assuming it's a Noel and Liam style hatred.


For the record, Ginsters Pasty's are not even close to being like a real one!