Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.

Subject: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 05:15 PM

Cornish pasty name given European protected status

The term "Cornish pasty" has been given protected status by the European Commission.

It means that only pasties made in Cornwall from a traditional recipe can now be called "Cornish pasties", the Cornish Pasty Association (CPA) said.

The Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status means "genuine" Cornish pasties will now be stamped with a special logo.

(There's plenty of folklore about it- any songs?? : )

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 05:22 PM

I penned a poem about it called "Tin-Miners' Lunch" - http://walkaboutsverse.webs.com/#55

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 05:32 PM

I've never been to Cornwall, but I've enjoyed "Cornish pasties" all my life. They are a regional delicacy in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, brought there by miners from Cornwall. Cornish miners also introduced pasties to the mining town of Grass Valley, California. I was born in Michigan, and now live about a half-hour drive from Grass Valley.
One of the few glimpses of heaven I've had in my lifetime happened about three years ago, sitting on a hillside overlooking the Mackinac Bridge in Northern Michigan, eating a pasty and drinking a bottle of beer. Heaven was interrupted when a park ranger came up to chat. I had to hide my beer, because I wasn't sure it was legal to drink there. I don't know if the ranger noticed my beer, but we had a pleasant chat.
I can't guarantee this thread will stay in the music section, Noreen. Better come up with a pasty song quick.
Now, tell me this: what's the plural of "pasty"? And what's the singular of the items that strippers wear to keep themselves from getting arrested in some localities? An old Polish priest I knew, referred to them as "three postage stamps, judiciously placed."
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 05:52 PM

Here ya go - oggies

See greg stephens on

15 April 2002 at 02:17 pm and 18 April 2002 at 01:34 pm.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 06:31 PM

Maybe this is an opportunity for someone to market a new product - the Corniche Pasty. Any recipe suggestions? A touch of garlic perhaps?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 06:32 PM

OK Joe... : D

OGGIE MAN
(man who sells pasties...)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 06:33 PM

Nice one, Topsie!

Would the Corniche Pasty be 'fast food'?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Folkiedave
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 06:38 PM

Here Joe, Make your own pasties!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 06:39 PM

In My Boy Billy the farmer's wife 'killed' her husband when she 'poisoned his paaaaastie'.

Are we there yet, Joe? *grin*

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 06:41 PM

Thanks Dave, I never knew what they were called... don't know any songs about them though, Joe.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: gnomad
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 06:44 PM

A friend calls them "Stegosaurus Pasties" in reference to their shape. Protected species status has, I fear, come too late for that breed.

When I heard the news I wondered about Cyril's song, which is about pasties in Plymouth (not Cornwall but Devon, so falling foul of the new rule) but the Oggie Man is, of course, "no more" and so is safe from interference.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 06:49 PM

I imagine they can still sell Oggies in Devon, gnomad :)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 07:01 PM

Don't think I'll be trying to make my own pasties, Dave. I'm a natural kinda guy - I prefer fig leaves.
Cold this time of year, though...

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 07:12 PM

What Cyril Tawney said about the Oggie Man

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Gurney
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 08:49 PM

There seems to be some confusion here between Pay-stees an Past-ees.

I can proudly say that I've never mistaken them for one another.

Oggies and ogle-ees.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Gurney
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 08:50 PM

I wonder when the European Union is going to patent Chedder Cheese.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 09:02 PM

I, too, grew up eating pasties -- I was born in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (populated by the descendants of Cornish miners) of Wisconsin stock. I left Wisconsin when I was 20, gravitated through Massachusetts and Maine, and landed in New Hampshire circa 1980, taking a gustatory enjoyment of pasties with me. When Tom and I had our potluck wedding in 1982, we provided the pasties (which my mother and I made) and the beer (dark) at our "reception".

Dinner well in hand!

Linn

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Bert
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 09:53 PM

Well said Gurney. You are not allowed to make fake Roquefort or Stilton so why does poor old Cheddar get stiffed so much.

If a company in Cheddar was to make a cheese and sell it as Wisconsin cheese then they'd be in trouble. Turn about should be fair play.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 10:45 PM

Whoo, boy. Are the bazaars and sidewalk vendors of the world now going to feature fake Cornish pasties which have been smuggled in from China or Hong Kong?   

Tourists be warned!
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Bat Goddess, your wedding sounds delightful.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,PeterC
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 04:28 AM

I wonder when the European Union is going to patent Chedder Cheese.

The name refers to the production process "cheddering" not the place of origin. Wensleydale on the other hand is, I believe, now protected.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 04:34 AM

Oh, there's no confusion at all, Gurney. We're just having fun.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 04:41 AM

Pasties are traditional in Australia too. We had immigrants here too.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: treewind
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 05:04 AM

fake Roquefort or Stilton
Stilton cheese isn't even made in Stilton.
It got its name because it was sold there when the old A1 (Great North Road) went though the village.

Slice of Cropwell Bishop, anyone?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 05:48 AM

Cropwell Bishop? Not to be confused with Stinking Bishop.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: davyr
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 06:04 AM

Didn't the 70s Folk/Rock band "Jack The Lad" play an instrumental medley entitled "A Corny Pastiche"?

If the new legislation stops some of the "rock-hard chunks of pastry with a scrape of something resembling petfood inside" that I've eaten in the past being called Cornish Pasties, it'll be very welcome.

And long overdue.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 06:10 AM

And, of course, Stilton comes from the area around Melton Mowbray...

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 06:17 AM

Dave, Cropwell Bishop is a Leicestershire village that makes great Stilton. Colston Bassett is another. :)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: theleveller
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 07:10 AM

I like the reply from the spokesperson for Gregg's Bakery when asked what they were going to call theirs now and he/she replied "...probably 'the pastry formerly know as Cornish Pasty'."

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Max Johnson
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 07:39 AM

I've had some utterly disgusting pasties in Cornwall, and the best one I've ever had was in Kirkby Lonsdale( it was even better than one of mine - there, I've said it).

But a Corniche pasty - that's genius!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,HughM
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 08:00 AM

So the EU now has the power to modify the English language.
   Maybe we should lobby Brussels to stop inhabitants of Cornwall from making Irish stew, Welsh rarebit, Scotch broth, Manchester and Bakewell tarts, Eccles and Chorley cakes, Frankfurters, Cheddar cheese, French dressing etc..

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,PeterC
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 08:22 AM


So the EU now has the power to modify the English language.

Passing a law that says that "Cornish" means "from Cornwall". Definitely not English as she is spoke.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 08:31 AM

Stilton is protected so when a farm near to where I used to live decided to make an unpasteurised version in their place in North Nottinghamshire, they came across the naming problem.

They found that in Medieval days, Stilton was called Stichleton, so that's what they call their cheese, and bloody fine cheese it is....

Anyway, Cornish pasties are made in my village. By me.   Little ones for when we have parties. if the Eu want to have a pop, first they need to be invited to one of our parties.

Sorted.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 08:54 AM

What's the problem? If they're made in Cornwall then you can call them Cornish pasties otherwise it's just pasties. It's not as if a pastie is going to be confused with any other pie product.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: JennyO
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 09:01 AM

What a lot of stupid fuss! Haven't they got anything better to do?

I've had some lovely cornish pasties that weren't in Cornwall. Best ones I've had so far were at the Filling Station in Sidmouth. We bought a dozen last weekend to bring home. Yum!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 09:13 AM

HughM, I enjoyed your post.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 09:23 AM

I first encountered the pasty when I visited Mineral Point, Wisconsin, where Cornish miners settled:

http://mineralpoint.com/history/index.html

I found a recipe, but my reaction was 'What a lot of work just to put a filling on a wheat-based food!' Let's see, you have to:

slow-cook a tough cut of beef and cut it up
clean and boil turnips, cut them up
saute onions
make a cream sauce, mix with the above to make a filling
mix pie crust
assemble all the above and seal against leakage
bake
cool till safe to handle

A housewife can make her husband a sandwich for far less effort.

If anybody knows a way to make pasty (that was the plural in Mineral Point) in fewer steps, let me know.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,Girl Friday
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 09:35 AM

We will be having Ginsters Cornish Pasties tonight with chips and baked beans. How do you eat yours ?

Regarding Steamin Willie's post about Stilton Cheese. Did you know that it is not made there ? It's originally made in Leicester. God help us if the E U hears about that...

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 10:17 AM

Could the OP's message be considered the First Pasty Post?

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 10:34 AM

"It's originally made in Leicester."

LeicesterSHIRE, actually - as I pointed out earlier.

Cream sauce in a Cornish pasty...?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Mr Red
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 10:37 AM

is the term "Kernak Pastie" protected as well?
And what of the carrots that always seem to make it into these things?
Now banned?

Ban the onions and I might eat one.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 10:38 AM

This looks a good recipe:

Hairy Bikers' Cornish Pasty recipe

No more complicated than any other meat pie recipe, really. And when they're made well, they really are lovely. The nicest one I ever had was May Day 2 years ago in Padstow. Can't remember the name of the shop - I guess I'd better pop in this year and check... :)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Will Fly
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 10:46 AM

I used to love Cornish Patsy - but she went all crusty on me.

(Got me coat already...)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 10:56 AM

leeneia -

The idea of the pasty was that the fairly loose fillings wouldn't fall out as they would from a sandwich and the ridge where the pasty was sealed was where you held it with your grubby hands (this was lunch for miners and ploughboys before greaseproof paper or clingfilm were invented). The ridge could be discarded once the rest was eaten.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 11:04 AM

Ceaseless vigilance is required against the advance of the designer or DFL pasty, with fillings such as smoked trout & sour cream, goat's cheese & pesto, Brie & cranberry, snails & garlic butter, and green tea & aloe vera.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 11:23 AM

i saw a sausage and mash pasty advertised today!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 12:06 PM

I've never thrown away the crust.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Will Fly
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 12:09 PM

David! You haven't got a house full of pasty crusts, have you? Good grief, man!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,Noreen
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 12:15 PM

Nice thoughts, Valmai- snails and garlic butter pasty...

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 12:23 PM

I heard somewhere, Will, that some miners would grip the thick crimped crust-base while eating, then ditch it, for obvious reasons.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 12:31 PM

Well I've seen 'hot cross mince pies' so why not 'hot cross pasties' for Easter?

[I tried a Ginster's pasty once - far too much pepper masking, or trying to mask, the other ingredients.]

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 12:45 PM

I checked out the recipe from the Hairy Biker. Sorry, it's still too much work. (I wonder how they manage to carry the ingredients plus a scale on a bike.)

I wonder what PETA would have to say about people cutting up Swedes for lunch?!
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Valmai, you have touched on a theme in our culture which I refer to as 'expensive ingredients in pointless combination.'

The average yuppie may know nothing about cooking and less about nutrition, but one thing s/he does know is what foods have high prices in the supermarket. So if a dish is made with all the high-priced items, it must be good, right?

Well, no.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,Seonaid
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 01:04 PM

Great one-liners about the food, everyone -- LMAO! -- and my Cornish ancestors would probably agree.
As to songs, years ago someone gave me a tape that included a song titled "Pasties and Cream." Don't remember the writer or artist. I'll see if I still have it.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 01:12 PM

I tried to find a tune about a pasty, but all I got was references to Patsy Cline.

bummer!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,Seonaid
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 01:16 PM

There's room for a song here about "Patsy and her Pasties" --
Either definition of "pasties" would suit, but a double-entendre would be even better. Sort of something between "Cow Patty" and "Linda and her Londonderry Air."

Take up your pens!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 01:40 PM

And a glass of pastis?

Kitty

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 01:49 PM

Via tonight's BBC Look North, as we speak, they are mining the earth's crust for hot water - to be used to heat clean water (via heat-exchangers), before being pumped back down for re-heating - in Newcastle upon Tyne...perhaps consuming the odd Greggs pasty, whilst awaiting the drill!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 01:53 PM

In my time I've had a few 'Cornish' Pasties which have come out as inferior Forfar Bridies.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Haruo
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 02:09 PM

Angus' Cornish Meat Pasties [pic] (thread) were very readily available in the Seattle area in the mid-to-late 1970s, from a restaurant, the Unicorn Pub, on the Ave (i.e. University Way) as well as in the refrigerated entree case in supermarkets, but I haven't seen them in recent years, maybe decades. The restaurant eventually became (and may still be) Gargoyles.

Incidentally, it sounds to me like there's a note missing in the Oggy Man tune (either that, or too many syllables in the text).

Haruo

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Bo
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 02:51 PM

I'm all in favour of protecting things when they deserve it, there are too many things disappearing year by year. For the time being I will avoid climbing on that high horse.
Nobody has said what you are supposed to do with the pasty crust - the miners used to throw it deep down in the mine to please the knockers. Happy knockers will lead you to the rich lodes. The farm workers throw the crusts out for the birds with the hope that they will stay off the crops.
Bo, in Cornwall thus an expert. Just ask The Barden of England

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Van
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 03:23 PM

The protectected status is not a result of some beaurocrat in Brussells it was some thing someone in Cornwall wantedd. I suppose the approved mark for a genuine one will be "Ginsters".

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Noreen
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 03:49 PM

Where is the note missing, Haruo? It sounds fine to me.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 04:54 PM

June Tabor's recording of Cyril Tawney's "OGGY MAN" was on BBC R2's Mike Harding programme tonight.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 05:02 PM

I've never seen one, but I like the idea of meat at one end and apple at the other. Aussie pasties can also be 'vege only' too.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Noreen
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 05:56 PM

Thanks WAV- good programme tonight.

Listen again: Mike Harding with June Tabor 23/02/11

June's version of 'Oggie Man' is at 37.40 min.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Bernard
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 06:58 PM

Hmmmm... Eccles Cake... Manchester Tart... Chorley Cake... Goosnargh Cake...

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 07:11 PM

So, is the US going to have a trade war with the EU, if we refuse to rename our Cornish pasties?

I remember the Cornish pasties at the Wisconsin State Fair in Milwaukee. Oh, they were heavenly.....

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Noreen
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 07:27 PM

Just rename them Corniche pasties- easy! And topsie can claim royalties on the name :)

(Bernard- what's a Goosnargh cake? Can't see it catching on- I picture it as something found in a farmyard... but that could be due to my memories of dancing a ceili in a Goosnargh farmyard...)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 07:29 PM

I suppose I'll just have to stick to 'Traditional Pasties' in future.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Noreen
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 07:35 PM

At the risk of skewing this into a cookery thread... when as we all know it is a music thread...
Goosnargh cakes!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 07:38 PM

I have known the similar/same...under the name:
Beer Rocks
Kraut Burgers
Kraut Runzis

Our covering is yeast raised bread rolled thin. (Not the nasty lard infused lead of the UK pubs)

Our insides include ground-beef,onions,and cabbage.

Most of the "pasty" I have consumed in the UK are nasty with stringy meat or organ-bellows-organs ...they invoke visions of "The Mad Barber of Fleet Street."

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Some of England's most noted exports ... are music and film ... which present a view ... that is less than inviting to tourists.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 07:49 PM

There's something about a pasty, There's something about a pasty
There's something about a pasty that is fine fine fine

It may be the way you make it, It may be the way you bake it
It may be the way you hang it on the line line line

You can keep your fancy dishes, My one and only wish is
To see them pasties marching out in line line line

When you taste that 'ansome crust, You could eat until you bust
There's something about a pasty that is fine fine fine!

Brenda Wootton, La Grande Cornouaillaise

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 07:50 PM

As a long-time denizen of Kernow, my advice apropos of pasties is as follows. If you're in true, deepest Cornwall, seek out Ann's pasties in Lizard village. You need to check her opening times. Failing that, seek out Crantock bakery's pasties. They really understand what meat should be therein and how it should be in the mouth. Further east, in the part of Cornwall I live in, you won't go far wrong with Barnecutt's pasties, made in Rock just round the corner from Sharp's brewery, but disseminated far and wide throughout the county (this end at least). Don't even think of buying a pasty and taking it home for later. You have to eat it hot, straight from the shop, walking through the street, or else it's only fit for giving to the seagulls.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 07:59 PM

Now, Garg, I wouldn't say Beerocks and pasties are the same thing. Beerrocks are popular in Fresno, California, brought there by White Russian settlers. They're a mixture of ground beef, onion, cabbage, and black pepper, with a dinner roll baked around the outside. Taste great with beer.
I've noticed that the name "beerock" sounds very similar to the sound of the Russian/Polish work "pierogi," another form of dough baked around meat, cabbage, and onions.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 07:59 PM

If you happen to be in the north-west of England, eschew pasties altogether and consume, instead, Greenhalgh's meat and potato pies. I get mine from the shop next to Bury Market. I can manage two, with one of those little plastic forks, straight from the paper bag, on a cold February afternoon, sittng on the draughty bench just outside the bargain CD shop, letting the starlings have a few crumbs. When in Rome. And someone up there mentioned "ground beef" in relation to pasties. Serve a pasty with ground beef in Kernow and within hours the Cornish Army will have ransacked your house and stolen your daughters. It must be skirt, y'hear?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 08:12 PM

Everyone knows that the best pasties are made by Moores in Exmouth,,,loads of other good pasties in Devon....why should them Cornish foreiners grab the market!!!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 09:55 PM

Well, Steve, if you're going to talk meat pies, then I'm going to have to link this whole lot to "Sweeney Todd the Barber"....

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: nager
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 12:38 AM

I have a cousin from Cornwall who makes the most delicious Cornish Pasties to the traditional Cornish recipe. She lives in Australia though. Don't try to tell her she can't call them Cornish Pasties!!!!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 02:55 AM

The regional speciality with meat at one end and sweet at the other is Bedfordshire Clanger , which is made with steamed suet pastry rather than baked shortcrust pastry as the pasty is.

The confusion may arise from the song quoted in this thead.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 07:13 AM

Oi!! According to this site, the sports fans' chant "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie; Oi, Oi, Oi" is far from original: tin-miners' wives would call "Oggie, Oggie, Oggie", down the mine, when the pasties were ready; and miners would recognise that with "Oi, Oi, Oi".

With that as a chorus, I could turn my above poem into a song, I suppose..?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,Wonderwall
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 08:21 AM

I thought it said Cornish Patsy and my heart sank. Thank heavens it is a food stuff rather than a noisy bird.

WW

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 09:35 AM

Another stanza - in the same, above, metre and abca rhyme scheme...

And, for health or as bad-luck blockers,
    The, leftover, thick crimped crust-base -
Having had mining hands on it -
    Would, by some, be ditched to the "Knockers."

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,Jim Knowledge
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 11:30 AM

I `ad that Rick Stein in my cab the other day. I knew `ed just come up from Padstow `cos `e `ad a picture of "Chicko" in "The Golden Lion" sticking out of `is pocket. `e did not look at all `appy.
I said, "Morning Rick. Whassup? Recession getting you down and the customers beginning to baulk at your prices?".
`e said, " Nah Jim. It`s those pratts in Brussels going on about the oggies."
I said, "Well, it`s only right, ennit? Imagine Cornish pasties from Bradford. You wouldn`t know what you`re getting in `em."
`e said, "Nah, it`s not that Jim. I`ve been getting away with flavoured Icelandic cod for ages now they tell me I`ve gotta put beef in `em!!"

Whaddam I Like??

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,HughM
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 03:18 PM

leeneia - Glad you liked it!

PeterC - Yes, Cornish means "from Cornwall", but surely in this context most people in the U.K. (and maybe the U.S.A.) would understand that to mean that it was the recipe that came from Cornwall and not necessarily the pasty. Similarly I had Lancashire hot-pot the other day and I don't think it was made in Lancashire. I also suspect that if I were served Black Forest gateau in Hamburg, it wouldn't have been made in the Black Forest.

gnomad - I like the stegosaurus description. Maybe that's the answer to the problem. Mind you, the European Commission would probably complain that they didn't contain any stegosaurus!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 05:16 PM

"Aussie, Aussie, Aussie; Oi, Oi, Oi"

Never heard it. Everywhere I've been it's "Oggie, Oggie, Oggie". Have a listen to the Crusaders v Bradford Bulls on Saturday.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 05:23 PM

Okay, Dave - as I say, it was new to me, but, frankly, the above site does say it's become a well-known rhyme.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 25 Feb 11 - 01:02 PM

Brenda Wootton - see above - naturally had her own recipe for Cornish pasty. A copy comes with the book Pantomime Stew, reminiscences of her life and family photographs. It's available from her daughter - see http://www.brendawootton.com/index.html

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 25 Feb 11 - 03:08 PM

I think it is ridiculous. Cornish pasty refers to the recipe not place of baking just as a Yorkshire pudding refers to a type of baked batter. I wouldn't want a Ginsters pie that's been sitting in a packet for weeks when I can buy something fresh from the bakers. Our baker sells many different sorts of pasty, the Cornish being just one type.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 25 Feb 11 - 06:29 PM

I agree with Mrs Duck. I can get Ginsters' or West Cornwall Pasty Co, or if I want a good pasty, I'll go to the Farmers Markets and probably get them from ia Orchard Pigs (just outside Wrexham).

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Haruo
Date: 25 Feb 11 - 06:45 PM

How does a pasty differ from a calzone or a pirozhok? Aside from being more likely to hail from Kernow, that is?...

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Feb 11 - 11:56 PM

Hi, Harue-
A pasty has a pie-like crust (folded over and crimped and baked), with beef, onion, and potato filling (sometimes cabbage and other ingredients)

A calzone has a similar crust, but with fillings like what you'd find on top of spaghetti or pizza.

Pirozhki have a breadier crust, with beef, onion, and potato or cabbage filling.

You didn't ask, but click here for information about beerocks.

All of them go well with beer, and I like them all very much.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Haruo
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 02:19 AM

Ah, rather like the distinction betwixt griddlecakes and flapjacks, eh? ;-)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 02:42 AM

I dunno, Haruo. I think of griddlecakes and flapjacks being the same thing. Pasties, pirozhki, calzone, beerocks, Sweeney Todd meat pies, lumpia, and dim sum all have similar definitions, but they are all quite different in the execution.
And they all taste great with beer.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 09:43 AM

What crusty offering did you like with your beer stein in Germany, Joe?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 10:54 AM

A famous make of Cornish pasty
Caused many a rhinoplasty
Both crust and interior
Were really inferior
And smelled quite incredibly nasty.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 11:04 AM

You forgot the chorus as solution to that problem, Alan!...

Oggie, Oggie, Oggie;
Oi, Oi, Oi!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Cats
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 01:26 PM

Living where I do I wouldn't touch a Ginsters pasty! There are far superior ones available in many of the small bakers all over Cornwall. The Chough in Padstow sells excellent ones but the very best come from the lady at our village Farmers Market.
The reason miners did not eat the crust was because a by product of copper is arsenic. They would take a pasty as snap, eat the pasty, throw the crust away, then lick their fingers!
My recipe is a round of shortcrust pastry, add in a layer of thinly sliced or chopped potato, the same of onion, a touch of turnip [which is the swedish turnip or swede] then skirt, chunks Never minced, top with a teaspoon of clotted cream, salt and pepper fold and crimp along the edge and bake. Eat hot straight out of the oven holding it in a bag or a piece of kitchen roll but never on a plate with a knife and fork.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 01:37 PM

...see, I told you, Alan. ;-)>

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: EBarnacle
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 02:13 PM

For further discussion about pasties, you can read the "Cat Who" series by Lillian Jackson Braun. There is discussion of what makes a good one every three or 4 books in the series.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 03:48 PM

WAV asks: What crusty offering did you like with your beer stein in Germany, Joe?

Well, actually I got hooked on Currywurst - cheap sausage sliced up, with something like ketchup on it, and curry powder on top of that. It was served in a paper tray and one used a toothpick to pick up the slices and eat. No bread or bready stuff with it at all.

Schmackhaft!

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 03:58 PM

Haven't tasted that but know of it, Joe, because there was some kind of documentary here a while back where the presenter tried some.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: maire-aine
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 05:21 PM

I held out as long as I could. But, after watching this thread for four days, I had to pay a visit to Barb's Pasties in Clawson MI for a UP-style beef pasty. Yum!

Maryanne

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 06:45 PM

I'm not really clear on why the arsenic is safer on the crust than on the inside of the pasty.

Mind you, you can see how it might have a distinctive taste.

What a great place Cornwall must be. Radon in the air. Dioxin in the water. Arsenic on the pasties.

Which will they achieve first? independence or mass suicide.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Cats
Date: 27 Feb 11 - 09:19 AM

Dear Alan,

Arsenic on the outside crust of the pasty, not the inside, which is why they throw the crust away. They hold it by the crust so they don't ingest the arsenic... until they lick their fingers!

Dioxins were only around Camelford and that was years ago, some of us, in fact most of us didn't drink the water.

Radon can be dreadful but I live on the moors and don't have a hint of it in my house and I have been tested [so's the house]and neither do many places in Cornwall

So perhaps we aren't all 3 headed monsters looking for independence or about to commit suicide.. although I do know one or two who would fit that bill!!! :-)
Cats

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 27 Feb 11 - 12:04 PM

People like me, who adore the crust, would have eaten the arsenic impregnated crust - and the thrown away the dodgy looking (and tasting) turnip. That little stall on the beach at Carbis bay used to sell these pasties that had turnips inside that tasted like old newspapers. However there was alot of pepper on the turnip (newspaper) - so with a nice strong cup of tea, you didn't really mind.

It wasn't poison, or anything.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Noreen
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 10:11 AM

It is mouth-watering reading this thread isn't it, MaryAnne!

The best pasty I've ever had was in Sidmouth (Devon) last summer- very light pastry and loads of filling : )

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 01:53 PM

To clarify on Joe's distinction between pasty, calzone, and pirozhki: the latter two use a yeasted dough for the crust. The calzone's is basically the same as a pizza dough, the pirozhki looks more like a bread dough (not as crusty). A pasty crust is an unlevened short crust, like a plain savory pie dough.

All of these are baked, rather than fried or steamed. It's pretty hard to think of a culture that doesn't have a native filled-dough (or at least bread-wrapped) food item (or items). Maybe the Inuit.

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: Folklore: Cornish Pasty to be a protected species.
From: GUEST,HotFlash
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 02:08 PM

Best pasty ever: Suomi Cafe in Copper Harbor, in Michigan's UP. The cook came out with a glass of flour and water paste to paint the words 'Hot Pasties' on the window when they were just coming out of the oven. Maybe it was the clear, crisp air (the UP in early June) but 50yrs later I can taste them like it was right now.

PS. Cornish-from-Cornwall neighbour of mine told me that proper pasties had *three* kinds of boiled meat -- mutton, beef and pork -- all fatty ('men like fatty meat') plus diced onion, potato, turnip and (maybe) carrot, moistened with broth and baked in a stiff crust. This is not a short crust,ie, not made with a lot of shortening, so more like a traditional British meat pie crust, which was mainly flour and water. It was intended as a baking pan than an edible, has more in common with pottery than pastry. She told me that miner's wives (such as her mum)would send their husband's off to the mines with a couple of hot pasties wrapped in a towel in their dinnerpaid and they would still be, well, not hot maybe, but warm at dinnertime (ie, noon meal). A hot meal in a cold, damp mine -- a good thing to send with your man underground.

She also told me about working in a little Cornish resort hotel when she was a girl. One of the permanent guests was a titled lady who send her laundry out -- to the south of France, where the laundresses ironed marvelous crystal pleats into her underwear. She also told me that the bootblacks blacked not just the uppers but the soles of gentlemen's shoes, as it wouldn't do for their shoes to look actually *walked in*. Thank you, neighbour Joyce, peace be to you.

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