Is it true?

[Mysty1975]

Is it true that Cornish Pasties used to be filled half with meat and half with something sweet or is it a myth and people are talking about a Lancashire Clanger?

[dot.hawkes]

I think that is right about the Cornish Pastie to an extent, it was made as a meal for the tin miners I think i once read, perhaps in a Winston Graham book. I have lived in Lancahsire since 1958 and I have never heard of a Lancashire Clanger, I have heard of the Clangers, but they lived in Space not Lancashire.

[helliebobs]

Also known as a Collier's Foot apparently Dot - think it's a type of pasty. I've never heard of them, and I'm a Lanky born and bred!

[laurence2]

The only two things i know about Cornish pasties are,

1. I love em

2. you can only call a cornish pastie a cornish pastie if its made/comes from conwall {Well i think i read that somewhere, please correct me if i,m wrong}

[Snowy Owl]

I`m not sure about the Lancashire one, but there`s a Bedfordshire Clanger which is half savoury and half sweet. Go to http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/BedsCC/SDclange r.nsf/Web/ThePage/Bedfordshire+Clanger for detalis!

[Ethel]

This site confirms that one half was meat and veg, the other half fruit.

http://www.cornwall-online.co.uk/history/pasty .htm

[naz_nomad]

Yes it was half & half ... and the crusty joint was used as a handle and thrown away ... because the miners were pretty grubby

[shaneystar2]

Quite true ...my maternal grandmother was a Cornish woman born and bred in Falmouth .She made wonderful tattie oggys ....my Mum's were good but hers were so delicious my mouth is watering now. A proper pasty ishould be crimped at the side never along the top.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty

[Goodsoulette]

when you go to cornwall a lot of baker still do them. There is one in Bude and one in Penzance that I feinitely know still do them, you get meat, potatoes and veg in one end and generally sweet apple in the other. I used to like them.

My grandad said it was a way of getting a pudding with your meal easily when you were out working in the fields or tim mines all day. Noone round here has ever disputed that it has always happened.

[Mysty1975]

Thank you everybody for your help.