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Article: Did the Cornish pasty really start out as a Devonshire tea?
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 13, 2006
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Byline: TAHIRA YAQOOB
THE name it gave to its meaty treat brought worldwide fame to Cornwall.
Now rivals across the border claim the Cornish pasty is a misnomer - as it was actually invented in Devon.
The claim follows the discovery by historian Todd Gray of a yellowing shopping list from 1510 which lists the ingredients of pasties - more than 230 years before the first Cornish written reference to the snack.
The note, scrawled on parchment and found in the pages of an old audit book, mentions the venison, flour and pepper needed to make the pasties and calculates the labour involved to make them.