Source: Atlas Obscura
The savory handheld pie known as the pasty appears in British documents dating back as early as the 14th century. But it was Cornish tin miners who popularized the portable meals in the 19th century. Since they worked at depths too great to return to the surface for breaks, they needed something that they could easily bring down to the mines with them.
The pasties acted as both lunchbox and lunch. Thanks to their sealed pockets of beef, potato, onion, and swede (rutabaga), they kept warm for…The post Cornish Pasty appeared first on FeedBox.