Cornish Pasty history and origin of Cornish Pasties

So far Cornish Pasty history goes as far back as the 13th century. Cornish Pasty be traced back to the time of King Henry III, when he discovered the culinary delicacy during his travels in the United Kingdom. Over time, Cornish Pasties were the main diet Cornish tin miners, blacksmiths and engineers. 

But according to other stories, local fishermen were pasty to be unlucky. There are several local Cornish superstition in circulation suggests that the pasty was responsible for keeping "the devil out of Cornwall", the devil would never cross into Cornwall for fear of being baked in a pasty. 

Some tin mines built large ovens in the pit head at the surface to keep the miners lunch warm until lunch time. The pasty is also known as Oggy, Hoggan, and Oggi; this definition just depends on which part of the country you are in. 

The reason why the Cornish Pasty was the main diet of tin miners was that they needed something easy to eat while you work. The pasty substance was usually the leftovers of different meals, so they further enhanced the taste of meals with pepper spices. Legend also suggests that the crimp node was condemned as a protection against the devil and perhaps more realistic it was scrapped to protect the miner from traces of arsenic that were on his hands from the mining of tin. Wives of the men were trying to do two courses in a doughy. On one end was the main savory meal and a desert-like filling of the other to make a complete meal in a doughy casing. The way that wives managed this was to insulate the two parts with a pastry department in between. Wives would sometimes engrave their husband's name on the crust, so they could go back to the leftover later in the day. 

As a pasty spread thought the country that were variations of pasties in Devon, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumberland, among many others. According to British culinary history, got the pasty format as tin miners migrated to find another job where the mines were closing. Cornish Pasty has traveled to far off the coast of tracks for the U.S. and Scandinavia, where Cornish immigrants left England in search of mining work abroad, Cornish Pasty is prevalent in Michigan. 

There is a tradition dating back to 1908 when the Cornish rugby team was to play an important battle, a giant pasty was hoisted over the bar before the match. A competition in 1985 by some young farmers in Cornwall had the largest pasty at the time. It measured thirty-two feet in length and took seven hours to bake. Then record was broken by some bakers in Falmouth Pasty first Festival. 

As in 2002, the Cornish Pasty Association, an application to the British Government that the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; get protected geographical indication for the Cornish Pasty. This will certainly Cornish Pasty as the World Wide recognized brand of Cornwall and the bakers!