Pilchard Pasties

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Fool's Gold: A History of British Saffron

By Sam Bilton

Published 2022

  • About

‘It is said that the Devil has never crossed the Tamar into Cornwall, on account of the well-known habit of Cornish women of putting everything into a pasty, and that he was not sufficiently courageous to risk such a fate!’ Edith Martin includes a number of fillings in her Cornish recipe book (Cornish Recipes: Ancient and Modern, 1930) including a broccoli pasty, jam pasty and a star gazing pasty. The latter was a pilchard baked in a