Bangers & Mash On The Menu As Cornish Bakery Launch Four New “Best Of British” Pasties August 19, 2009

Bangers & Mash Pasty

A ‘BANGERS & MASH’ pasty complete with onion gravy is just one of a handful of innovative versions of the ever-popular Cornish pasty to be launched next month.

Cornwall’s Crantock Bakery, the award-winning producer of Cornish pasties, have spent weeks refining the recipe which forms part of their four-strong range of autumn seasonal specials.

Other new flavours available from 1st September include two great British favourites: a Chicken Tikka pasty made with a tikka masala sauce, and a Roast Chicken pasty which contains all the ingredients of a full roast dinner – including stuffing and gravy.

Crantock’s New Product Development Manager, Becky Hornabrook, said: “They say the only thing a Cornishwoman won’t put in a pasty is the Devil, and while our new autumn specials are definitely different we’ve spent a lot of time making sure they taste devilishly good.

“We’ve used locally-sourced Cornish ingredients wherever possible, from the potato and swede grown on local farms, to the herby Cornish sausage in our ‘Bangers & Mash’ pasty. They’re certainly not a traditional Cornish pasty, but they still contain the authentic taste of Cornwall.”

Completing the autumn range is a ‘Bacon & Brie’ pasty, made from cooked smoked bacon, potato and brie.

The new autumn “Seasonal Specials” range will be available for trade and wholesale customers from 1st September until the end of December. To order contact the Crantock Bakery sales team on 01726 861120 or email enquries@crantockbakery.co.uk.

Crantock Bakery’s pasties, sausage rolls and hand-raised pies are sold all over the country in branches of Morrison’s, Asda, Proper Pasty, Cornish Kitchen and many independent bakeries.

Operations Director Matthew Hurry said: “Lots of our customers, such as the Cornish Bakehouse or Oggy Oggy Pasty Company, take our seasonal specials to run as a ‘Pasty of the Month’. In the past many of the products that were created as a short-run special have proved so popular that we’ve been asked to list them permanently.”

The Autumn Specials range in detail

Bangers & Mash pasty – herby Cornish sausage in an onion gravy with real mashed potato.
Chicken Tikka pasty – chicken and potato in a tikka masala sauce.
Bacon & Brie – cooked smoked bacon, potato and brie.
Roast Chicken – an entire meal in a pasty containing roast chicken, stuffing, swede, potato, peas, carrots and gravy.

LittleMissFoodie Says: I can’t wait to try the bacon and brie one. Mmmmmm

Proper Pasty Company Celebrate 10 Year Anniversary And Partnership With Crantock Bakery August 17, 2009

Yorkshire businessman John Worrall swapped a 23 year career as a high-flying international sales director to open the North’s first Cornish pasty shop 10 years ago this month.

From their first shop in Sheffield, Proper Pasty Company has grown into a £3 million business with 10 shops, mobile food vans, an outside catering department and a catering training academy.

The company also wholesale Cornish pasties throughout the North and Midlands for Newquay producer Crantock Bakery.

“There was a lot of luck involved in the decision to start Proper Pasty,” said Managing Director John Worrall. “I was working for a big international company, away travelling a lot, and it was after I went through 13 airports in 12 days that I decided I’d had enough – I was shattered.

“I resigned from my job, and spent a year on garden leave. My girlfriend was from Cornwall and during that year we went down to see her family in St Ives a lot, and it was there, sitting on the quayside in St Ives that the idea to open a Cornish pasty shop came to me.”

Their first shop in the centre of Sheffield opened on 4th August 1999 with three employees. The concept took off immediately, with the shop taking over £230k in the first year of trading.

They opened a second Sheffield shop the following year, and started up their wholesale operation supplying Cornish pasties and bake off products to independent retailers throughout the Midlands, North and Lake District.

A further eight Proper Pasty shops followed in subsequent years: in Bakewell, Newcastle, Leeds, Bath and Yarm, plus a deli/diner and a factory shop in Sheffield. The company now employ 55 people.

And in June this year Proper Pasty moved to a new, purpose-built distribution centre and head office in Sheffield. The £1.1 million facility extends to 12,000 sq ft, and includes a vast 100 pallet freezer for secure wholesale storage.

Proper Pasty Company are also celebrating a second anniversary: a decade-long partnership with Cornwall’s Crantock Bakery, award-winning producers of the Cornish pasties sold by the firm.

John Worrall explains: “I’ve been around for a little while and have worked for some big companies, and after a while you get to recognise a good company when you see one.

“We’ve never had another supplier – we worked with the founders of Crantock Bakery, and now with Managing Director Nick Ringer, and we get on very well, we have very similar backgrounds.They’re just a really professional, well-run business – and they make great pasties.”

And in the future John has no plans to slow down: two more Proper Pasty shops are due to open this autumn in southern England.

For more information about the company, go to www.properpasty.co.uk