The Blinman Cornish Pasty

Next stop - The Miners Crib (bakery)
As the story goes the Cornish Pasty is a tribute to the original miners, they were feed the pasty with veges in first 3/4s and the apple pie at one end, a meal and dessert in one. Apparently, originally they also had a pastry handle to hold onto to eat, but had to discard after eating as they had arsenic on their hands from mining and needed to hold onto something and not touch the food they were eating.
So of course we had to try one, without the pastry handle, it was pretty good with the sweet surprise of apple at the end.Read more