Cornish Pasty | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Use your leftovers to great effect. Put your stew in a pasty for a tasty lunch!

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[ianmcculloch]

I live in Moonta, South Australia, Australias little Cornwall. In 1860, Cornish miners came here to mine the copper, and we still make the Cornish Pasty the way those early settlers made them. Two sides are folded upwards to make a deal across the top. Meat and vegetables in one end, and a baked apple or other fruit at the other end. The top crust was held in the hand, and never eaten, due to the contaminants on the miners hands.
In these modern times here, the local baker uses mixed vegetables, no meat, and no fruit pudding on one end. We never throw away the crimp on top either.
In Moonta, bi-annually, we hold the worlds biggest Kernewek Lowender.

[Btossman]

Mr Fearnley-Whittingstall you have been my favourite chef/cook/gardening enthusiast since I first laid my young eyes on River Cottage. I would be lying if I said I wanted to live that amazingly rustic river cottage style of life, however, you have my utmost respect for making it look so darn appealing. Here's to Hugh, may the cottage live on for years to come.

[stevetroy]

Please do some more shows!!! You are brilliant and I miss seeing your River Cottage shows

[diosdadocruz]

No celebrity chef makes such soulful food as Hugh!!!

[laughingachilles]

May I offer a tip from my aunt?

My aunt would save literally every bit of grease from a frying pan; bacon, sausages, burgers and every other item you can imagine which left grease in her pan was drained off into a bowl. She would heat this up and use it for many recipes, but her favorite was to run a thin line along the seal of a pastie. She found this reduced the often dry pastry at the edge and ensured a fantastic flavour.

I encourage others to give it a go because I never tasted a pastie which had a crust like the ones my aunt made. Her fillings were hit and miss, the pasty was great, but the pastry near the seal was second to none.

[MrDisneyCollector]

How nice that you know the history of the pasty. my great grandfather born in 1877 showed me how he made them when I was young. He rolled out the dough but cut it in squares. He said no one would waste any time or scraps to cut them into circles and you can get more filling all the way through in the square slightly rectangle.

[JamesCarmichael]

Left over chicken madras from the previous night. Add some potato, carrot and bits of crushed poppadum for the filling and wash it down with a nice glass of lemonade.

[nacholibre]

Cooking with an Aga takes some special talent. We had one that ran on coal when I was a kid. We baked lots of bread and made wonderful roasts and stews.

[BlueJazzBoyNZ]

Thanks Hugh for being a genuinely inspirational part of humanity. and the cooking is good 2

[laurallama]

Imagining all of the possible pasty fillings is making my head spin. 🤩✨✨✨

[dollyjeanstevens]

I am from Penzance and my nan from St Just. Use a plate turned upside down and lay a quarter of the edge over to easily grab to make the crimp and put the filling up near the edge.The left overs was rolled out again and filled with jam for dessert!

[zimnaya]

Really delicious and superb pasty. Thanks so much...your pastry looks so light and flaky

[christineedmondson]

A true Cornish pasty is beef skirt, swede & potato. The crust served as a means for the miners of holding the pasty with dirty hands without contaminating the meal. Arsenic commonly accompanies tin within the ore that they were mining so, to avoid arsenic poisoning in particular, it was an essential part of the pasty and was thrown away.

[danpeters]

I drove to Cornwall the other day and brought w traditional steak Cornish pasty it was absolutely amazing good quality locally sourced ingredients well worth the cost and was the best pasty i ever had the smell or a fresh hot cornish pasty is lovely

[brendadrew]

Can't wait to try and make these. Don't know about putting in my pocket. Knowing me, somewhere along the way I'd forget and sit down and smash it! lol Thanks for sharing...lovely video indeed!

[signalfire]

Oh. My. God. That does it, I'm renouncing my citizenship and moving wherever that is.

[roncooke]

I noticed you cook the filling Looks great

[MusicHavenSG]

From your Pasty and turnovers spawned a lovely local curry puff for Singapore! Either way, anything that is saucy and meaty is great, like curries, stews, chilli con carne.

[benjaminau]

I'd cry if my food falls out of my pocket while working lol

[inablumen]

My great-granny used to put some apples and raisins in one Corner of the pasty. So there was pudding aswell.