Cornish pasty

English

a Cornish pasty

Alternative forms

• Cornish pastie

Etymology

19th century Cornish + pasty

Noun

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.

Translations

a kind of meat pie

• Cornish: pasty m
• Finnish: kornilainen pasteija
• Icelandic: kornbresk kjötbaka
• Irish: pastae Cornach m
• Welsh: pastai Gernyw f, pasten Gernyw f