Handmade in Cornwall
From time to time we recieve comments about our products appearing to shrink in size, feedback from a number of our shops report that some customers are voicing some concern about the size of the pasty compared to the last time they purchased.
We speak to our kitchen about this on each and every occasion and we get the same answer, which is undeniably the truth! The problem is in the hand crimping process it isn’t a smaller cutter size for the pastry nor is it saving on fillings to pinch back profit margin in these very difficult retailing times…it is the tightnes of the crimp on the pasty that makes it look smaller.
With machine made pasties you get a consistent size and shape every time…but machine made isn’t authentic and it is genuine, nor is it clever! What is clever is consistent quality, every Proper Pasty Company product is hand crimped within a given tolerance and this creates a certain amount of fluctuation in appearance, however the acid test is in the weight of the product and in every case that we’ve received reports, we pull a batch of random pasties and weigh them on a digital scale. The appearance is smaller there is no doubt but the pastry weight and the filling weight is exactly to specification! So in this case ‘what you see’ isn’t always ‘what you get’ if you see what we mean??
The moral of this story is that Handmade products are exactly that…they are handmade and in this respect they will not be consistent in size, however to keep up the tradition of producing authentic Cornish Pasties, Proper Pasty Company prefer to stick to the age old method and deliver consistency in quality not necessarily size…it’s the content and weight that counts!!
Selling Cornish Pasties from a catering van is one of the most lucrative small business ventures we’ve ever seen!