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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Well, it IS interesting.  While I hate cooking, I do sometimes enjoy reading about various historical ways people cooked and ate. |
You'd like the history of the Cornish Pasty.
https://www.propercornish.co.uk/hist...-cornish-pasty
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It was in the 1700s & 1800s that pasties became popular with working class families in Cornwall but they no longer contained the rich and decadent fillings of the 13th century, instead, they consisted of a simple short crust pastry case with potato, swede and onion, all common vegetables, and occasionally some cheap pieces of meat if available. This is how the humble pasty was born.
As mining boomed in Cornwall, pasties became a go-to meal for the miners’ crib breaks; they were an all-in-one meal that could be taken down the mines and eaten without cutlery. The wives of Cornish miners would lovingly prepare these all-in-one meals to provide sustenance for their spouses. Sometimes, fruit was cooked into one end of the pasty to provide a sweet treat at the end of their meal (these were known as “tinners” pasties). A miner’s wife would carve her husband’s initials into his Cornish pasty, so that he was able to distinguish his from all the others (how cute is that!)
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