From our 2010 Calendar…
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Loveday Tresidder
Born just after midnight March 31st 1700, Loveday grew up in Porthemmet on the north Cornish coast. One of seventeen children, her father and brothers all worked in the local mine. Whilst watching her mother’s endless toil preparing croust (packed lunches) for the men to take to work, Loveday came up with the ingenious idea of combining both a meal and a pudding in one edible package. Fish at one end, dessert at the other all contained in a specially reinforced pastry crust in case it was dropped. With the crimped edge forming a handle by which the miners could eat their meal without getting it dirty.
Who would have imagined that the humble pasty would go on to become such an emblem of Cornwall.