The Daily Telegraph

First pasty the post?

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Devon

A document dated 1509 and held at the Plymouth and West Devon Record Office reads: “Itm for the cooke is labor to make the pasties 10d.”

Cornwall

Les Merton, who wrote The Official Encyclopae­dia of the Cornish Pasty, said cave drawings on the Lizard dating back to 8,000BC show a woman eating a pasty.

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