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Millymollymandy wrote:Oooh you'll get all the Cornish up in arms saying that! I think it depends where you buy your Cornish pasties from (it's supposed to be lamb) and if you buy those revolting supermarket ones then I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole either!

no its not supposed to be lamb

Red's getting parochial!!!!!

Beef, potato, turnip/swede and onion is the traditional recipe.

Often now made with lamb (but then it should be just a pasty, not a Cornish pasty).

I've searched and searched for pig's head pasty, but I'm getting nowhere.

Mike

parochial ? me?

The earliest recorded mention of a pasty was... Devonshire

To be fair though - I believe a pasty was, in days gone by, pretty much last nights stew wrapped up in a pastry container for travelling, and could be made of anything.
But todays traditional pasties are beef onion and swede yum.

Hi, I would be only to happy to take these off your hands. I live in nottinghamshire so could pick them up any time. my email address is anubis9690@aol.com.

Hi, I've had a word with hubby & if they're still available he'd be delighted to take one or all of them depending on whether you have a couple of other people interested (he's scouring Hugh FW's meat book as we speak!)
Are you able to store them until Saturday?
My email address is jomuscroft@hotmail.com

Many thanks

It was one of the first things I made in cookery at school though I can't remember what meat we used!

Saw them being made on the telly not so long ago and 'they' said it was traditionally lamb that was used. Maybe different parts of Cornwall/Devon use diff. meats? Personally I'd prefer beef anyway. In any case home made (even mine from school ) is worlds apart from those mass produced bought ones.