Anyone recommend a pasty?

[AJS-]

I quite fancy a Cornish Pasty for lunch and was wondering what anyone else thought? What is a good pasty? And where can I get one without paying a fortune. Good crunchy pastry is a must, and not too much potato.

[paprika]

Get the wife to make one ?

That's not even a joke.

[Fabric 2.2]

Kick her back dough in?

[GTIR]

Fabric 2.2 said:

Kick her back dough in?

[rlw]

Barnecutts in Wadebridge to a damn fine pasty.

[oilydan]

Barnicuts are all over N Cornwall.

Their Steak and Stilton is

[grumbledoak]

A location might help!

West Cornwall Pasty company are all over the place; they're ok. Amusing signs on the one at Covent Garden, alternately "We sell coffee" and "We sell beer!". Their website is a Flash abomination though, so try google first...

[jmorgan]

Ginsters?



Going to be no help but.... Our local butcher used to make them, had to look out for them else where where they were made proper. So that would mean not in a bit of plastic.


Edit. Blue Anchor in Helston. I think.

Edited by jmorgan on Tuesday 31st August 08:52

[alfa pint]

The Dewnar ones in Plymouth are fantastic, but that's probably a bit far.

Pasties are easy to make. Shortcrust pastry, cubed steak meat, small slices of potato and cubes of carrot / turnip to your individual taste. Braise the meat, chuck in the veg and par boil, wrap in the pastry, brush with milk and bake in a medium 180 oven for about 40 minutes and you're sorted.

For the authentic pasty, you can even mix the fillings and make one end sweet and the other savoury. You put a mark in the pastry so that you know which end is which. Apple stew is a common sweet filling.

[escargot]

As above, very easy to make at home. Don't be shy with seasoning the meat & veg mix though.

[kelk]

Has anyone else noticed that recently those chain pasty shops are making their pasties (is this the plural?) are getting hotter and hotter. So much so that the pastry is now part space shuttle tile.

The issue is that they are so hot you can no longer taste the filling.

[LordGrover]

Being a GasHead I'm quite partial to Proper Cornish Pasties. That's the 'brand' - Proper.

ETA: Click

Edited by LordGrover on Thursday 2nd September 12:22

[alfa pint]

escargot said:

As above, very easy to make at home. Don't be shy with seasoning the meat & veg mix though.

A good point - the only thing you should be able to taste is salt and pepper! Everything else is there purely for texture....

[AndyAudi]

Smoked Haddock & Cheese Bradie

[LordGrover]

Puff lid. FnarFnar.

[bazking69]

A trip down South West is the only way to get a top notch pasty. Stonkingly good and never matched anywhere else in the country.

[hyperblue]

jmorgan said:

Ginsters?

Ginsters are to pasties what Carling is to beer.

[jmorgan]

hyperblue said:

jmorgan said:

Ginsters?

Ginsters are to pasties what Carling is to beer.

I thought I was being obviously ironic. I hate them, I have had many a fine pastry with a good filling from Cornwall, worked there enough over the years. I know what a good one is and it is not in a plastic wrapping with best before on and certainly not the doppelgangers lurking in petrol stations.

[Nuisance_Value]

Stephens Bakery make steak bridies and they are without doubt the best I've ever tasted. Gorgeous pastry and full of proper steak and a rich thick gravy. One is a meal, two are a struggle. You can only get them in Fife, but I often go over just to get one. Only cost about £1.20 too, bargain.

[oilydan]

jmorgan said:

hyperblue said:

jmorgan said:

Ginsters?

Ginsters are to pasties what Carling is to beer.

I thought I was being obviously ironic. I hate them, I have had many a fine pastry with a good filling from Cornwall, worked there enough over the years. I know what a good one is and it is not in a plastic wrapping with best before on and certainly not the doppelgangers lurking in petrol stations.

I used to work at Ginsters, you'd be surprised to hear that the sausage rolls were actually very good straight out of the ovens. A few days in the packet in a petrol station doesn't do them any good at all.

Even the pasties were OK....ish.

Most surprising was the fact that, at the 'bakery' I worked in mostly made Supermarket own-brand sweet pies (cherry/apple etc), custard tarts and other non-Ginsters foods.

I worked in the pastry room and still, to this day use the recipes for making pastry at home, albeit in slightly smaller batches