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"Mrs Bonk" > wrote in message
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> Frank Calidonna wrote:
>> Mrs Bonk wrote:
>>> Dave wrote:
>>>> Mrs Bonk wrote:
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>>>>> I don't buy shop pasties dear, thank you all the same. I always make
>>>>> my
>>>>> own - I have Cornish connections you see and once you've had one of
>>>>> mine you wouldn't want to to back to mass produced. There is a small
>>>>> shop I know of in Cornwall that make traditional pasties and they are
>>>>> not bad, very similar to mine but to be frank, most shop pasties are
>>>>> absolutely awful. Sadly The Gorge is now too commercialised. At this
>>>>> time of year it is practically deserted and I find it at its best but
>>>>> come the warmer weather tourists will flock there cash in hand to buy
>>>>> up all the cheese, sweets, cider and strawberries and I will be
>>>>> shopping at Asda.
>>>> You say in the same paragraph that you only have the best Cornish
>>>> pasties, albeit either your own, or from a genuine pasty shop and then
>>>> go onto saying that you shop at one of the world's worst shops. (Asda)

>>
>> Dear mrs. Bonk,
>>
>> I'm intrigued. Any chance of sharing a pastie recipe. I don't even know
>> what they are, but now I am hungry.
>>

> http://www.cornishlight.co.uk/cornish-pasty.htm
> this recipe is much the same as mine except:
> Let the filling be roughly half meat and half potato and onion mix, I
> don't use the swede/turnip.
> Wet the meat or add a teaspoon of water to the mix.
> I cook mine for an hour, sometimes longer, but I do have big ones


Oh, can I see them, please?

Alan