How Filled Cornish Pasties Are Kept Together #Food #Pasty #Recipe #Cooking

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[Music] the key to keeping a pasta together when it’s filled to the brim is all about the pastry itself this type of pastry is neither puff nor short crust it’s called rough crust made with flour lard butter salt and water rough crust is kind of the best of both words this pastry has a slight flakiness to it which makes it more flexible than short crust each ingredient is also there to Aid the portable nature of the pasta potatoes are waxy and keep their shape when baked and since the rough crust will hold them tight nothing will get out until you give a bite it’s robust enough not to break and actually being so portable is the reason why passes are so beloved here in Cornwall it was because miners would take them down the mine with them to have for lunch the times have changed the mines have closed but the pasties have stayed