Why true Cornish pasties need a sweet side

SIR – Geoffrey Budden (Letters, July 27) says that early Cornish pasties did not have a sweet component.

When I lived in Cornwall as a child, the workmen on our farm always brought with them a homemade pasty, with meat at one end and fruit in the other. They would present them to my mother when they arrived, and she would put them in the Aga so that they could have a hot lunch.

Coline Grover Much Birch, Herefordshire

Proper job: a tray of freshly baked traditional Cornish pasties in St Columb Major