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Just returned from the new bakery in Alsancak. Pasties just out of oven, they are absolutely lovely. Very large, fully filled and fabulous pastry. That's it for daily feed up.

Delicious meat pies they are, but Cornish pasties they ain't.

Oh Crikey , I can feel a "when a is a Cornish Pastie not a Cornish Pastie" saga coming on!

When it's made outside of Cornwall! Of course.

A true Cornish Pasty, as made by my miner's wife landlady when I lived in Helston, is 2/3rds meat and veg and 1/3rd sweet (e.g. jam & custard or apple) with markings on top so you know which end to start when you're down the tin mine with your davy lamp off to conserve fuel.

Pasty, pie etc. etc don't mind, they were delicious. Bang on Sophie with your post.

Great post Sophie, my other half from Cornwall and when we stay in Bude the pasties are amazing, they do Vegetarian ones and you cannot eat a whole one by yourself!
I want to visitthis bakery, but can you please tell me what exactly is Gul bread? I normally make our own bread but would like a few days off!

I believe Turnip is a key ingredient in proper Cornish Pasties.

Reminds me of a semi amusing story about the the time when I visited a lovely bakers shop in a small town in Alberta Canada many years ago,I asked the young lady behind the counter if she had any Pasties,she blushed and looked quite offended.

A Canadian friend later told me that in North America pasties are the Nipple Tassels that Strippers wear.

Philoz wrote:A Canadian friend later told me that in North America pasties are the Nipple Tassels that Strippers wear.

Purely for information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasties

Gul is the name of the bakery from what I gather. They used to sell it in Lemar, until they opened this new bakery They do a delicious corn bread, whole meal, and a couple of other different ones.

Philoz wrote:I believe Turnip is a key ingredient in proper Cornish Pasties.

Reminds me of a semi amusing story about the the time when I visited a lovely bakers shop in a small town in Alberta Canada many years ago,I asked the young lady behind the counter if she had any Pasties,she blushed and looked quite offended.

A Canadian friend later told me that in North America pasties are the Nipple Tassels that Strippers wear.

http://www.cornishpastyassociation.co.u ... recipe.pdf
swede, not turnip.

TRNCVaughan wrote:

Philoz wrote:I believe Turnip is a key ingredient in proper Cornish Pasties.

Reminds me of a semi amusing story about the the time when I visited a lovely bakers shop in a small town in Alberta Canada many years ago,I asked the young lady behind the counter if she had any Pasties,she blushed and looked quite offended.

A Canadian friend later told me that in North America pasties are the Nipple Tassels that Strippers wear.

http://www.cornishpastyassociation.co.u ... recipe.pdf
swede, not turnip.

Swede (also known as yellow turnip or rutabaga – referred to in Cornwall as turnip)

In Scotland they don't call 'swede' swede they call it turnip and what we call turnip they call 'new turnip'

so it's a south, north, and south again thing - i.e. depending on where you come from it may be called swede or turnip....

Gul Pasatenis is in the parade of shops almost opposite Wines of the World at Alsancak (main road)

It's Gül meaning Rose for those with a Turkish keyboard.

I have tried the Cornish Pasties, pastry was delicious, buttery, crumbly, melt in your mouth, the the pastie was stuffed to capacity with meat and potato, a little carrot and onion (as turnip/swede are hard to come by here) it would make a complete meal on its own, but 10 out of 10 for now.

The Danish pastries are heaven..............again melt in the mouth, the best I've ever tasted sheer wicked indulgence!! and having being married to a Dane these are better than any I tasted in Denmark.

Thank you Wookie! I am responsible for making both, and appreciate your feedback.



Fatma.

Just back from Gul Bakery

Bought my bread, BUT couldn't resist buying there Jam Donuts

and Danish Pastries.. Jam donuts are the best we have had,they even beat the ones in the UK.

They have now got so much choice of goodies xxx

Wookie wrote:I have tried the Cornish Pasties, pastry was delicious, buttery, crumbly, melt in your mouth, the the pastie was stuffed to capacity with meat and potato, a little carrot and onion (as turnip/swede are hard to come by here) it would make a complete meal on its own, but 10 out of 10 for now.

Although swede is hard to find, kohlrabi cut into small cubes could be used as a very successful substitute, it can be prepared in much the same way.

Boiled and mashed with butter salt and pepper too it make a mashed swede substitute and if you add some cooked carrot it even looks like swede! When mashing you may need to squeeze it out to remove excess water as it is a bit more water retentive than swede.

Kohlrabi is available widely and for most of the same season that we would look for swede.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlrabi

Thanks Erol for the info!!!!! Loved it and on Wikipedia too!!!!

The things we learn on kibkom!!!!!

Gül are also trying when and where possible to source brown paper bags. He says it's not easy but he's doing his best.