Name: Is the pasty really Cornish? 6 Minute English
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So I'll name a place and you say the first

'Hot dogs', of course. Or maybe 'bagels'.

forms the south-western tip of Britain, is

as famous for its pasties as New York is for

hot dogs. In this programme we'll be finding

out all about Cornish pasties. We'll hear

become a symbol of Cornish identity and spread

… and filled with different ingredients

- which brings me to my quiz question for

today, Rob. What is the traditional filling

Well, chorizo is Spanish isn't it? And avocado

with brie doesn't sound traditionally Cornish,

OK, Rob. We'll find out later if you were

right. What's for sure is that the Cornish

pasty has had a long history as BBC Radio

life curator at the British Library. Here she

There's a lovely bit here where he's describing

what a housewife in Hertfordshire does and

pies and pork pasties: pies may be made and

baked either raised in paste earthen pans

or in pewter dishes or in the shape of a turnover,

two-cornered pasties. So that's a very early

reference to a pasty in the shape, I think,

that we know it but also being made specifically

for labourers - to be feeding labourers on

So the earliest pasties were made in pewter dishes

– a traditional cooking plate made of a

And they were eaten by agricultural labourers

– workers doing physical farm work during

harvest time – the weeks in autumn when

who ate pasties. As well as its farms and

fishing, Cornwall was famous for tin mines,

Pasties would have been eaten by lots of people

who went to work but it just worked perfectly

down mines, and Cornwall became the world

capital of mining. And so lots of pasties

were made, lots of pasties were eaten and

then that mining community went all over the

Pasties were eaten by hungry workers involved

in the mining industry - digging up materials

such as coal or metals like gold, or in Cornwall

So far we've been talking about Cornwall.

But you said the Cornish pasty has spread

around the world, Neil. How did that happen?

This is replicated, not just in Mexico but

with migrants moving to America, to Minnesota,

to Canada, to Australia. So anyone who travels

to many of those places now will see foods

which are incredibly reminiscent and familiar

In the 19th century, many Cornish tin miners

emigrated, moving abroad to start a better

life. Their pasty recipes were replicated

– or copied exactly, in the new places where

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Is the pasty really Cornish? 6 Minute English

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