01752 225339

tania@barbicanpastyco.co.uk

Barbican Pasty Co

Freshly Baked Cornish Pasties

Get the taste of a traditional Cornish pasty at the Barbican Pasty Co.
Our Traditional handmade Cornish Pasties are made in Bodmin Cornwall and freshly baked on site.

Welcome to the Barbican Pasty Co, home of Plymouth’s best loved pasty.

Located on Southside Street in the historic Plymouth Barbican area, the Barbican Pasty co offers traditional Cornish steak pasties as well as a wide range of other fillings.

We are sure you’ll love our traditional handmade freshly baked Cornish pasties. Handmade in Bodmin, Cornwall and baked fresh at the Barbican Pasty Co, we offer a mouth-watering selection of the finest Cornish pasties around.

Our pasties are baked fresh on site from 10am, 7 days a week.

Cornish Pasties Heritage

Our pasties are made fresh in Cornwall by the UK’s leading handmade Cornish pasty manufacturer the ‘Proper Cornish Food Company’.
The Proper Cornish Food Company have been making pasties since 1988 and dedicated to sharing the delights of Cornish fare.

Early references to pasties include a letter from a baker to Henry’s VIII’s third wife, Jane Seymour, that states “hope this pasty reaches in better condition than the last one…”, as well as quotes in some of Shakespeare’s plays, including All’s Well That Ends Well: Act IV Scene III – PAROLLES: “I will confess to what I know without constraint: if ye pinch me like a pasty, I can say no more”.

The pasty’s best known association stems from the 1800s when it evolved to meet the needs of the Cornish tin miners. The pasty was a complete, hand-held hot meal, usually consisting of meat, potato, onion and swede in a pastry casing. Mines often built large ovens on the surface to keep the pasties warm until it was time to eat. The shout ‘Oggie, Oggie, Oggie’ is said to originate from Cornish miners calling for their pasties (also known as oggies or tiddy oggies). The thick crimped edges were originally for holding the pasty whilst eating, to avoid being poisoned by the arsenic sometimes found on their fingers. This crimping was then left for the mischievous ‘Knockers’ (ghosts) which were said to exist down the mines.

The history of the traditional Cornish pasty

Cornish to the core, The Proper Cornish Food Company are based in Bodmin in beautiful North Cornwall. Cornish produce is used wherever possible and their pasties are made from an old traditional Cornish family recipe handed down through generations.
There is still a great deal of debate as to the true origins of the pasty, but there is little doubt that the pasty has a long and famous Cornish history.

It is often said that it was the miners emigrating from Cornwall after the collapse of the tin mining industry which led to the pasty’s national and international spread. Variations of the pasty can be found throughout the UK and the world. It is particularly popular in parts of the United States, Mexico, Argentina and Australia.

However, any Cornish man or woman will tell you a true Cornish pasty can only be made and baked the traditional way in Cornwall. The pasty holds a special place in Cornish hearts and in Cornish culture. For many the pasty is the greatest symbol of Cornwall.

Pasty Facts:

  • It was 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
  • The pasty was sometimes divided inside into two sections so as to provide both a main course and dessert
  • A good pasty was thought to be strong enough to drop unharmed down a mine shaft
  • Fishermen never took a fish based pasty aboard ship for fear of bad luck

Thank you to the Proper Cornish Food Company for the historical pasty information.

Fresh pasties baked daily

From traditional steak pasties to a wide range of other fillings we have something to suit everyone’s taste buds!

Our pasties are lovingly handmade using a family recipe passed down through the generations at the Proper Cornish Food Company in Cornwall. All pasties are hand-crimped by a dedicated team of crimpers before being packaged up and freshly delivered straight to us at the Barbican Pasty Co to be baked daily for you to enjoy.

Steak pasties:

  • Traditional large/medium Cornish Steak Pastie
  • Steak and Stilton
  • Steak and Ale

Chicken pasties:

  • Chicken and Chorizo
  • Chicken and Mushroom
  • Chicken, Bacon and Leek
  • Chicken Balti

Cheese pasties:

  • Cheese and Bacon
  • Cheese and Onion
  • Cheese, Tomato and Basil

    And there’s more!

    • Lamb and Mint
    • Vegetable
    • Sausage Rolls

    Pasties for all occasions

    Whatever the event, we can supply the bakes

    We can cater for buffets and parties. Our range includes premium pasties, cocktail pasties, vegetarian options and sausage rolls that can be bought frozen for bake-off or baked and chilled.  Either way they will emerge from the oven with the perfect look and aroma of ‘homemade’.

    Please call us to arrange your order: 07812186082

    Contact Us

    Contact Us

    Come and visit us on the historic Barbican in Plymouth, or call us with your requests and we will be happy to help.

    Barbican Pasty Co
    22 Southside Street
    The Barbican
    Plymouth
    Devon
    PL1 2LD

    Tel: 01752 225339
    Mobile: 07812186082
    Email: tania@barbicanpastyco.co.uk