I was reading the news today concerning the latest ‘who makes the best pastie’ story and was surprised to come across -
“However, Mr - , the author of the Official Encyclopedia of the Cornish Pasty, argued that cave drawings show that pasties, wrapped in leaves rather than pastry, were eaten in Cornwall as early as 8,000BC ”.
Mother must have had a brah old trug to get tatties back then.
I do miss the way my Mother and Aunties used bake heavy cake, buns, and pasties with gravy running out of them mmmmmmmm....................now I m bloomin starving.
Well, I had the best teachers of pasty making in the world : my mother-in-law and her daughter, none of this flaky pastry stuff, and it was not a pasty unless it was larger than the dinner plate, none of those two bite jobs they sell in shops. They both used what was known as a fish plate (a metal plate bigger than a dinner plate with enamelled finish) to trim out the pastry. I soon learnt how to make a real pasty.
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