The Modern Cornish Pasty

Crantock Bakery, one of the leading producers of Cornish pasties, made just under 20 million pasties in 2008. Their traditional Cornish steak pasty is still the most popular, but with more than 30 different fillings produced at the Newquay bakery there’s still some currency in the old wives’ tale that the only thing a Cornish woman wouldn’t put in a pasty is the Devil!

Over 90% of Crantock Bakery’s pasties are sold outside Cornwall these days, through independent bakers, specialist pasty shops and in supermarket bakeries.

Crantock Bakery’s 27,000 sq ft premises have been purpose-built to enable the production of up to 140,000 pasties a day – each one crimped by hand in the traditional Cornish way.