The Background on this page is the Cornish National Tartan (faded for special effects). Yes! Cornwall does have a
tartan. There is also a Cornish Hunting Tartan. Each colour on the National tartan
has a meaning:
White
on black for St.Piran's Banner (The patron saint of tinners)
Black
on Gold were the colours of the ancient Cornish kings
Red
is for the beak and legs of the clough, the Cornish National bird
Blue
is for the sea surrounding
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PASTIES
Contributed by Liz Jenkin and copied from the Cornish recipies URL:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/cornishlib/cornishrecipes.html For pastry:
8 oz plain white flour with salt and
pepper mixed in
2 oz margarine/butter
2 oz lard
2 tbsp cold water
Rub fats into flour until like bread
crumbs, stir in water with knife and mould together into pastry. Divide into 3 or 4 and
roll out each into a circle.
Filling:
8 oz skirt of beef (if in Cornwall
just ask for pasty beef)
2 big potatoes (otherwise known as
spuds)
1 small swede
1 chopped onion
salt and pepper
Dice up ingredients in filling quite
small and put some in the middle of each round of pastry. Damp edges of pastry with milk
and fold it over into a pasty sealing edges. Glaze with milk or egg and milk and bake in
hot oven for 20 minutes until pastry starts to brown and then turn oven down to moderately
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Anthem (unofficial)
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Trelawny
A good
sword and a trusty hand, a merry heart and true!
King James' men shall understand what Cornish men can do.
And have they fixed the where and when? And shall Trelawny die?
Then twenty thousand Cornishmen will know the reason why!
And shall Trelawny live? Or shall Trelawny die?
Here's twenty thousand Cornishmen who'll know the reason why!
Out spake the captain brave and bold, a merry wight was he:
"Though London's Tower were Satan's hold, we'll set
Trelawny free.
We'll cross the Tamar, land to land, the Severn is no stay.
Then one and all and hand in hand, and who shall bid us nay?"
And shall Trelawny live? Or shall Trelawny die?
Here's twenty thousand Cornishmen who'll know the reason why!
"And when we come to London wall, a pleasant sight to view;
Come forth, come forth, ye cowards all, Here's men as good as you
Trelawny he's in keep and hold. Trelawny he may die;
But twenty thousand Cornish bold will know the reason why!"
And shall Trelawny live? Or shall Trelawny die?
Here's twenty thousand Cornishmen who'll know the reason why!
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