The Cornish Pasty

So one of the 1000 Things to Eat Before you Die that I have eaten many a time on at least three continents are Cornish pastries.  Wanting to post them, I grabbed one to eat in the subway.  I also used my time to search google to get the scoop which is that they have been around since AT LEAST the 1200s.  They were originally thought to be from Cornwall and were portable lunches for tin miners, fishermen and farmers to take to work. Apparently, the women of the house would make them for each family member and would mark them with initials so that each person could identify their own pasty    They were carried to work in a tine bucket and using a candle, they would be heated before eating.