Cornish Pasty Lunch in Boscastle
Lunch in Boscastle
Whenever we visit my friend in Devon we make an effort to visit Boscastle so we can have a Cornish pasty for lunch.
Now, you can buy pasties all over the country, although they now have protected status and must be made in cornwall, but I don't think you can beat the pasties made freshly at Boscastle Bakery.
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Pasties were originally eaten by the Cornish tin miners and farm labourers. It was quite common to have a savoury filling at one end and sweet at the other making it a portable full meal.
Also, the thickly crimped edge meant that the men could eat them with their dirty hands and throw that bit away.
The traditional ingredients are beef, swede and potato.
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Lunch in Boscastle - Step 1
Buy your pasties and an HP squeezable sauce pack. You cannot, in my opinion, enjoy a pasty without HP sauce! 😊
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Step 2 - Choose Your Lunch Spot
We chose this pretty slate bench beside the river.
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This was our view from the bench - the Women's Institute Sale on the village green.
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Step 3 - Ready Your Pasty
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Step 4 - Add Your Brown Sauce and Enjoy!
These little packs of HP Sauce are pure genius and I've not seen them anywhere else. You just sqeeze a small amount onto your pasty eat that bit and repeat. One pack easily serves 2 pasties.
So there you have it:
How to have the perfect lunch in Boscastle, Cornwall! 😁
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That looks pretty tasty!
Oddly, pasties are a thing here in Minnesota, especially in the north. They look similar to those, except with a different crust. I wonder how they made their way here. Most of the early settlers were Norwegian and German.
That is interesting @fotosdenada. No idea what the answer is though as our originals are well and truly a product of Cornwall.
Okay, @gillianpearce. I'm officially hungry, but I think it's going to be a while before I get to Boscastle. :)
This all sounds very good, from the food, to the view, to the eating technique... I probably should just go ahead and have breakfast and then keep saving the pennies. :)
Since I seem to be learning a new word every time I read a post of yours, today's word is: swede.
I learned that the kind that goes into a Cornish pasty is not a burly man from Sweden, but in fact, something along the lines of a rutabaga. :) Imagine my relief.
And another interesting fact for you. Swede is often called neeps in Scotland and is eaten traditionally with haggis on Burns night (as in Robbie Burns the poet). Has anyone even heard of Robbie Burns in the US? 😂
Oh, I would imagine someone has, but not me. :)
Neeps, eh? I don't think I've ever eaten one, under any name, come to think of it. And I know I haven't had haggis. I understand it's not something your really want to try, either. :)
Well. I personally don't like haggis but everyone else in the family does.
Swedes (neeps) are OK. I like them best when mashed with potatoes. They're useful for vegetable soup too.
You've probably heard a few of Robbie (actually Rabbie) Burns quotes . . . "My love is like a red, red rose". " “The best laid schemes o' mice an' men . . .". Although they would be written in the Scottish (old? Scottish) vernacular. (Is that the right word?)
So many questions. 😂
He also wrote auld lang sang which is traditionally sung and "danced" to on New Years Eve. Although I was a bit surprised to discover that that is more common in England (happens pretty much at ever NYE celebration) than it is in Scotland.
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