[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Sooooo did you know that you weren’t supposed to eat the top crimped part of a Cornish pastie ??

They were made for miners to eat underground and the tough bit was used as a handle then simply discarded …


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The wives of Cornish tin miners would lovingly prepare these all-in-one meals to provide sustenance for their spouses during their gruelling days down the dark, damp mines, working at such depths it wasn’t possible for them to surface at lunchtime. A typical pasty is simply a filling of choice sealed within a circle of pastry, one edge crimped into a thick crust . A good pasty could survive being dropped down a mine shaft! The crust served as a means of holding the pasty with dirty hands without contaminating the meal. Arsenic commonly accompanies tin within the ore that they were mining so, to avoid arsenic poisoning in particular, it was an essential part of the pasty.


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Interesting!