Cornish pasty

• Cornish pastie

19th century Cornish + pasty

Cornish pasty (plural Cornish pasties)

1. A kind of meat pie, not made in a pie pan but with a large piece of folded-over pastry dough, crimped shut, then baked on a sheet. There is no one standard recipe, but it usually includes meat and vegetables in a thick hearty sauce.
   • 1854, Chambers's Journal of popular literature, science and arts, W. & R. Chambers:

     […] after we have removed some of the dust of our journey, we sit down to a well-spread tea-table, on which a noble Cornish pasty holds the post of honour.