Talk to me about cornish pasties
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Ok, my take on this, being a Splott Boy...
A pint of Brains Daaaarrrrkkk,
At the Arms Paaaaaarrrrrkkk,
With a Claaaarrrkkkkeeesss Pie, minced meat one.
Gorra be good fer yer!
Clarkes are better than Thomas Merthyr/Peters Pis and Pasties.
And Gingsters too.0 -
When I lived there I lived on the tasty pasty's from rowes, as I worked in the central (Newquays best pub) opposite, tell you what anymore than one or two a week and you really start to notice the old waistline increasing!!!0
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I might make pasties for tea now. Sausage sage and apple. Maybe with a bakewell tart end0
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GAZDERRY: Here's the address to send your spare pasties/tart:
Splottboy,
King of Splott,
Splott Road,
Splottlands,
Cardiff.0 -
I'll have to do several test tastings personally first, for quality control. I'm also thinking beans cheese and sausage with a rice pud and jam end or ham leek and cheese with a bara brith bread pudding end0
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I am now up to my neck in drool.
Thanks a bloody lot, mate !
Gotta get changed again for work now.
You REALLY know how to hurt a man, sorry, Young Fit Older Adult!0 -
yeehaamcgee wrote:Cake pasty sounds like a winner though.
Indeed. I will be making something like this, as a scientific experiment of course, next week.
i could either make the whole pastie with cake filling or do the savoury & sweet half & half option.
I'm currently thinking of using a malt-loaf type mixture for the "cake" filling. As to the savoury one, although mince & onion is one of my favourites, might be a bit "runny" with the gravy. Could do something a bit more 'sollid' with potato (+potato), corned beef and onion.
I'm not going to rush into this, it needs some careful planning and consideration to achieve the desired result...0 -
I've already designed mine. It involves that sort of premade pastry you can buy, jusrool, or something, and battenberg
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yeehaamcgee wrote:I've already designed mine. It involves that sort of premade pastry you can buy, jusrool, or something, and battenberg
That sounds a bit like cheating to me...
Although, I like the idea of premade pastry.0 -
well, I have no idea how to make pastry, and since there is such a thing as premade stuff, I have no intention of learning 0
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yeehaamcgee wrote:well, I have no idea how to make pastry, and since there is such a thing as premade stuff, I have no intention of learning
Ah, you see, our kitchen has a fully functional Mrs C, who is most proficient at making pastry...0 -
IcarusGreen wrote:pte1643 wrote:IcarusGreen wrote:A very famous photograph from the late Nineteenth Century shows a group of tin miners at 'Croust Time' , that is meal time to you and I, tucking into very large pasties. Incidentally the mining boom was largely over by the 1860's Such pasties would have meat at one end and a fruit filling at the other.
I've heard somewhere (BBC Coast, or somesuch similar program) that the pasty was the staple diet of the Cornish Tin Miners. That the curled "Crust" was the "Handle" (if you like), and was thrown away after, so as not to get dirty hands on your dinner.
True. Shame, as the crust is the best bit
Miners generally had to avoid touching their food because in many mines (particularly gold, copper and tin) there was arsenic in the ore. Apparently the tin mines in Cornwall were actually amongst the first in the world to produce arsenic as a by-product of mineral extraction.My abundant supply of MTFU is reserved for use in dry, sunny conditions.0 -
Sheeps, From newquay, head down the coast about half an hour, on the rod between Porthtowan (one of the best beach breaks surf wise in the uk) and Portreath, stop in on The Bike Barn, not only will you be able to nose at cubes and lapierres you cuold try a normal Pasty, venison, ostritch, kangeroo, wild boar or the abomination that is a cheese and Onion pasty!! and 'If' its not raining, then you cold sit int he beer garden (of the bike shop!!) and have a pint of the 'Coast to Coast' ale they have specially brewed for them!!
- the coast to coast trail that runs from Portreath to Devoran is only 11 miles! (north to south coasts!) and if you come of the main trail half way down the valley there is a Whole days worth of playing to be had in the mine waste workings!! DH runs, freeride area's good tech xc sections too!!
the Bakery in St Agness make Lovely pasty's too!! Generally a Butchers pasty will be Best, mass produced like warrens, rowes etc are nice but not a patch on a Good butchers one!!
and yeah the crust was thrown away to prevent any of the aresnic coming from the hands into the mouths!!Timmo.
After all, I am Cornish!
http://cornwallmtb.kk5.org/
Cotic Soul, The bike of Legends!
Yes, I Am a bike tart!
http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... 1#162974810 -
cheers for the tips fellas. i will be in the central on friday night no doubt drinking all of the rattler, just like last month and just like last year.0
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go upstairs in the cocktail bar (my old bar) and say hello to Keah, top bloke and say Ian sent yousheepsteeth wrote:cheers for the tips fellas. i will be in the central on friday night no doubt drinking all of the rattler, just like last month and just like last year. oh and dont drink vodka based cocktails as they "may" be watered a bit? 0 -
top tip, i will do exactly that. i wonder how he is at making whisky sours.0
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*Ginsters "pasties" ARE NOT CORNISH PASTIES - anyone who thinks so is wrong, simply wrong! Referring to them as such ranks at a similar level to referring to the welsh dragon as a squirrel (which i have never done, honest :P )
*Go to a proper local bakery and havea traditional Cornish Pasty - Do not order any other b*st*rdised versions or people will look at you and question your manliness. Savoury pasties should basically be shortcrust pastry, meat, potato and swede, that is all!
*Chasing said Pasty with a Doombar or Tribute will show you what heaven is truely like!
*Anyone patronising Devonian that bleats on about Pasties being from Devon or the order in which cream or jam is applied to a scone should be ignored - nobody worth listenign to ever said such things - see Faked moon landings, Prince phillip caused death of Diana, Hurricances are caused by homosexuals etc etc
*Please, please, please spend some time outside Newquay, newquay is not Cornwall, it just happens to be within the county - it's a ghastly mistake - there are far nice places, and better pasty shops, within a short drive/ride/walk it would be criminal to not visit them
*Have fun!We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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we are limited by the purpose of the visit and i wont have time to visit anywhere else unfortunately.
i have been before and i loved it, it may not be traditional cornwall but it is awesome all the same.
im going to find a pasty in newquay and see what the fuss is about though, ive heard they can be bought from shell garages and weatherspoons?0 -
Thats like saying Rhyl in NOT North Wales!
Surely, all countries/regions/areas HAVE to have a slow, red-neck, backward area, to make the rest of us look "almost" normal?!
I have a good mind to go to Rhyl, and tell the locals, but their caves are so well hidden...0 -
my mum lives there.0
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sheepsteeth wrote:we are limited by the purpose of the visit and i wont have time to visit anywhere else unfortunately.
i have been before and i loved it, it may not be traditional cornwall but it is awesome all the same.
im going to find a pasty in newquay and see what the fuss is about though, ive heard they can be bought from shell garages and weatherspoons?
No no no no, you can do better than that - Pasty shops are not in short sup[ply In Newquay, don't worry about it!We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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i remember walking past the one opposite the central and those looked delicious so i will give that place a try.
i will be in padstow most mornings too as it happens so maybe there sis omething there worth trying?0 -
ddraver wrote:*Ginsters "pasties" ARE NOT CORNISH PASTIES - anyone who thinks so is wrong, simply wrong!
Ginsters are a genetic mistake. The result of inbreeding in pasties. Something was broken in the fabric of the universe when the first ginsters was produced. It's a bit of goo wrapped in a deep fried brown paper bag.0 -
sheepsteeth wrote:i will be in padstow most mornings too as it happens so maybe there sis omething there worth trying?
The Chough Bakery, right on the harbour front 0 -
butcher of bakersfield wrote:ddraver wrote:*Ginsters "pasties" ARE NOT CORNISH PASTIES - anyone who thinks so is wrong, simply wrong!
Ginsters are a genetic mistake. The result of inbreeding in pasties. Something was broken in the fabric of the universe when the first ginsters was produced. It's a bit of goo wrapped in a deep fried brown paper bag.
now you are just making me hungry!!0 -
Pasty idea abandoned last night, it would have meant me having to go shopping and generally doing stuff
I had Pasta instead0
