Cornish Pasty

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Gary Rhodes

Published 1999

  • About

The pasty has been a staple food in Cornwall for centuries, and often carried different names: tiddy oggy was one and hoggen another, when it didn’t contain potato. Almost any food at one time was fitted into the pasty crust, including meat, fish, vegetables, eggs or fruits, sometimes savoury at one end of the pasty, sweet at the other. I’m not sure that those combinations would be accepted today, but I have been offered chocolate pasties before now... I prefer to eat and cook the classic r