[Sca-cooks] Looking for "Celtic" foods, especially "finger foods"

[Susan Fox]

I think the Cornish are too thrifty to discard the entire pastry 
portion, even if it's tough enough to be the lunch box, but a miner 
handling metal-rich ores [frequently including arsenic] is well advised 
to hold the pasty by the crimp and toss that as a sacrifice to the 
"knocker" spirits of the mine.  Good Luck, indeed.

The variation called the "Bedfordshire Clanger" has jam or fruit in one 
end as the sweet course.  This is like 19th Century or so however.

Cheers,
Selene

On 3/3/12 9:56 AM, Susan Lin wrote:
> I thought part of the deal with pasties was that the dough was not to be
> eaten.  Rather it was to contain the inside when the workers left home they
> could take them with them and then at meal time crack it open and eat the
> insides, discarding the pastry.  Am I thinking too modern?  I also remember
> reading that the pastie would contain the whole meal, including a "dessert"
> end - usually cooked fruit.  Again, maybe I"m thinking too modern - miners.
>
> Shoshanah
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