Cornish pastie

English

Cornish pasties from Australia

Alternative forms

• Cornish pasty

Etymology

19th century Cornish + pastie

Noun

Cornish pastie (plural Cornish pasties)

1. A kind of pie with meat and vegetables in a thick hearty sauce, not baked in a pie pan, but rather in a large piece of folded-over pastry dough, crimped shut, then baked on a sheet.
   1. A crimped pastry envelope where 2/3 of the length of pie is the savoury meat and vegetable filling and 1/3 is fruit or jam.

Translations

a kind of meat pie

• Cornish: pasty m
• Icelandic: kornbresk kjötbaka

See also

• Bedfordshire clanger

 

Anagrams

• prochitinases