Miner's Lunch · Pastry Parcel

Cornish Pasty

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Under the protected recipe, the beef, potato, swede and onion go into the pastry raw and cook together inside the sealed case as it bakes.

A Cornish pasty is a pastry parcel filled with beef, potato, swede, and onion, crimped along one edge into a thick seal, then baked until golden. It's sold whole, wrapped in paper, to eat by hand.

Why it's made this way: It became the working lunch of Cornish tin miners, who could carry it underground and eat it by hand. Its regional identity has been legally protected by EU Protected Geographical Indication status since 2011.