[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizarding World Fauna, Potions, Pasties, & Pies

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 79716

In a message dated 9/3/2003 2:01:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
bboy_mn at yahoo.com writes:

> Pasties actually started out as Cornish Pasties. Apparently there are
> coal mines in Cornwall, and the coal miners had to eat there lunch
> down in the mines. So their wives would put the entire lunch into a
> pastie or pie crust rolled so it was closed into a small sandwich. 

The term is actually much older than that - check TO THE KING'S TASTE by Dr. 
Lorna J. Sass.  It's a translation/adaptation of a cookbook from the court of 
Richard II (r. 1377-1399 - the period of Chaucer).  The word "pasty" (in 
various spellings) is used in the names of several dishes.  (We often found them 
handy for taking to SCA feasts when we went off-board...)

I've always pictured Pumpkin Pasties as looking rather like the hot apple 
pies from fast food restaurants, only filled with pumpkin.

Sherrie


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