P is for Pasties: a Cornish tradition

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We are on the move again today, leaving Cornwall and heading east towards the Isle of Wight.

It has been a good visit - walking, seascapes, natural beauty, mining legacy, trying to find Poldark.

And of course we had to try the famous Cornish Pastie, Cornish Ice Cream and the Cornish cream tea with delicious clotted cream. 

And we have had it all! 

The pastie was the first ‘fast food’, made for the tin miners; it was a meal of the best skirt of beef, potatoes, carrots and swedes encased in pastry, the thick edge was then discarded down the mine – to appease the little people who lived in the mines, the pisky’s, but also because the miners hands were filthy.

Food in Cornwall.