I was following the arguments in the Pasty War saga pretty well, until I came to the recipe:
The ORIGINAL Devonshire Pasty - as first eaten in Plymouth circa 1520!!!
Ingredients:
1lb Shortcrust Pastry
1lb lean, chopped beef - raw or 1lb of scraggy Cornish venison - raw.
2 medium sized, finely chopped potatoes - raw
1 medium chopped onion - raw
1 medium chopped swede - raw
1 beaten egg
salt and pepper
We colonists all know that the potato is a New World product from our fine country of Peru. This is confirmed in the source of all knowledge - Wikipedia!! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato. . And I quote "Following the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, the Spanish introduced the potato to Europe in the second half of the 16th century. The staple was subsequently conveyed by European mariners to territories and ports throughout the world. The potato was slow to be adopted by distrustful European farmers, but soon enough it became an important food staple and field crop that played a major role in the European 19th century population boom".
We colonials stand up mightily for our food crops, like potatoes, born in Peru and now matured in Idaho. Of course, the French did develop the long sqaure variety of potato, known as the French Fry. And, I must admit that the Brits did develp a potato variety sort of thin and circular - the crisp.
Are you implying that the Devonians and Cornwallians included crisps in their pasties?
I am not allowed to tell in public that I sent my newlywed wife to the hardware store in 1969 to buy adhesive backed picture hangers - that I told her to ask for pasties.
Sven and Ollie from Minnesota are also very distrustful that your recipe includes a medium chopped swede.
Denny Fritz
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A little background on the Pasty Wars fought between Devon and Cornwall:
http://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/pasty_devon.htm
It reads like it was written by one of Doug's distant relatives - possibly some
evonian blood in there somewhere?
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