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Where should the crimp be on a Pasty?

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Top or side, and why?

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  1. Depends on where it is made,

    The Cornish pastie is crimped along the side while the Devon pastie is crimped along the top!!


  2. Side, on most Cornish ones.  The top crimp is more common in Devon.  Though it's still argued about.

    It's a little picky to worry about the crimp when on the original pasty the outer was never eaten.

    The Devil has never visited Cornwall, according to legend.

    One night, sitting on the other side of the river Tamar, considering harrowing Cornwall, he observed that Cornish folk would put ANYTHING in a pasty, and he was afraid they wouldn't exempt him and he'd end up in one.

  3. It should be all around the radius edge and be quite thick, the reason is that Cornish pasties were originally made for farmers to take to work in the fields, because their hand were always dirty and had nowhere to wash them, they used the crimped edge to hold the pasty while they were eating it and then throw the crusty edge away when the rest of the pasty was finished.

  4. the "crust" should be thick and on the side.

    this is because the miners used to take them down the mines and have them for lunch, they would then throw away the "handle"

    also, one half of the pasty used to be filled with meat, potato and veg, and the other apple pie filling. you'd just continue eating through so you had your whole meal.

  5. 'God' is absolutely right - real Cornish pasties have the crimp on the side and it should be really thick. It was originally meant to be the 'handle', and thrown away when the rest of the pasty had been eaten.

  6. crimp on side to stop filling oozing out also for decoration

  7. Definately on top - like the real ones we bought in Cornwall as kids. In our family, we used to say that the ones with the 'frill' on top were 'live ones', as opposed to the ones with the frill on the side - they were dead!!

  8. Pasties have crimps on the top and pies on the side. It makes a seal to keep the contents from oozing out. It looks pretty too!

  9. hey as long as its round the edge to stop the filling coming out i'm happy!

  10. AROUND THE RIM SO THAT THE LID SEALS AND COOKS PROPERLY
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