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> spamtrap1888 > wrote in news:e6e5ddf6-e3a9-4b71-
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>> Triggered by the piroshki discussion. The world likes to wrap food in
>> dough.
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>> My mother liked to try recipes out of magazines and the newspaper food
>> section. Once she made us what she called "Cornish pasties." But when
>> I look up Cornish pasty, they resemble turnovers, with a pie crimp.
>> Hers resembled baseballs, with a dough patch on the bottom.
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> Being of 'Southern' origin, where the pasty (pronounced par-stee) was
> predominant, the 'turnover' one you mentioned is the ridgy-didge version.
>
> Your mothers was obviously a *******ised version.
>
> Here's some pics of pasties.....

(snip) But even your pics had some ring ins ir seems. Triangular ones, it
seems, are a no-no.

According to the "Cornish Pasty Association", a 'genuine' pasty must be in
the shape of a D with the crimp on the side.

Who da thunk it....... but more to the point, who could care less about the
shape so long as it tastes right?