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Definition of Cornish pasty
1. Noun. Meat pie with filling of meat and vegetables.
Definition of Cornish pasty
1. Noun. A kind of meat pie, one not baked in a pie pan, but rather, in a large piece of folded-over pastry dough, crimped shut, then baked on a sheet. There is no one standard recipe, but it always includes meat and vegetables in a thick hearty sauce. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornish Pasty
Literary usage of Cornish pasty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association, Thomas Rowland Powel, Donald Moore (1862)
"The Cornish pasty, which so admirably comprises a dinner in itself—meat, potatoes,
and other good things well cooked and made up in so portable a form—was a ..."
2. Landmark Visitors Guide Cornwall by Rita Tregellas Pope (2006)
"... locally grown produce and of course a true Cornish pasty accompanied by the
local speciality ale Hick's Special Draught. The only difficulty is deciding ..."
3. Life of Richard Trevithick: With an Account of His Inventions by Francis Trevithick (1872)
"The two ladies consoled one another over a cup of tea and a Cornish pasty at
Limehouse ; and on the return visit to Bond Street by a sample of French ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... of the meat from the oven, if surrounded with flannel, or some bad conductor
of heat The Cornish pasty is the best example of this kind of cooking. ..."
5. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1911)
"Mincemeat, for mince-pies, was originally (like a " Cornish pasty," in which
raisins are mixed with meat) one of these combinations of sweetness and ..."
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