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Facts about CornwallEden Project; A living theatre of Plants in the heart of CornwallAll life of Earth depends upon the survival of the plants that surround us - each day of our lives, we use plants from every continent on the planet. The Eden Project is a gateway into this fascinating interactive world of plants and people, a living theatre, exploring our global garden inheritance and revealing plants as you've never seen them before. Eden is a truly unique experience, in the heart of Cornwall's Clay Mining country - a place to explore the amazing relationship that exists between the human population and the fascinating world of plants and to the extent that we depend on plants for our very existence. The Cornish Pasty!
There is virtually no limit to what tasty filling you might find when you take a first bite into that delicious crunchy pastry! Surprisingly, however, in a region where the sea plays such an important role in everyday life, fish has never been regarded as an appropriate pasty filling. In fact, the more superstitious among Cornish fishermen will refuse to take a pasty on board their boat when they set out to sea, in the belief that it will bring them bad luck. The pasty originally evolved to meet the needs of tin mining, that other great, but now sadly declined, Cornish industry. A hearty meal wrapped in a pastry casing made for a very practical lunch (or "croust" , as they used to call it ) down in the dark and damp tunnels of the mine. Some mines even built huge ovens on the surface to keep the miner's pasties hot until it was time to eat. Tradition has it that the original pasties contained meat
and vegetables in one end and jam or fruit in the other end, in order to
give the hard-working men 'two courses'. Cornish housewives also marked
their husband's initials on the left-hand side of the pastry casing, in
order to avoid confusion at lunchtime. This was particularly useful when
a miner wished to save a 'corner' of his pasty until later, or if he wanted
to leave a corner for one of the 'Knockers'. The Knockers were the mischievous
'little people' of the mines, who were believed by the miners to cause all
manner of misfortune, unless they were placated with a small amount of food,
after which they could prove to be a source of good luck.
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was once said that the Devil would never dare to cross the River Tamar
into Cornwall for fear of ending up as a filling in a Cornish Pasty! For
centuries the Cornish have been filling their famous pasties with almost
any ingredients that you would care to think of. The traditional filling
is, of course, beef and potato, usually with slices of onion and swede
mixed in as well, but the humble pasty can also be found in a number of
other guises. Popular fillings down the years have included Egg and Bacon,
Rabbit, Apples, Figs, Jam, and Egg and Currants.  |
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