Friends of The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums Launch Cornish Pasty Sale

PLATTEVILLE, Wis., Jan. 19, 2022 — Celebrate the birth of Wisconsin and its Badger State identity with the food that our earliest miners ate: Cornish pasty! From January 17 to February 19, 2022, the Friends of The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums will be selling Cornish pasties as a fundraiser to benefit the Museum for pickup on Saturday, March 5. 

Pasties (pronounced “PAST-ease”) are hand pies with savory fillings, and have been a staple of the diet of Cornwall – where many of the world’s greatest miners originated – for more than 700 years. Pasties were enjoyed by Wisconsin’s pre-Civil War lead miners, and are still considered a delicious treat. The pasties will be made by the Walker House in Mineral Point, whose beef pasties were called "one of Wisconsin’s best foods" by the Food Network in 2017. 

The 7-ounce pasties are offered frozen, to be baked at home for a piping hot meal and accompanied by your favorite condiment. (We recommend chili sauce.) Pasties are $10 each for orders of 1-4, $8 each for orders of 5-9 pasties, and $7 each for orders of 10 or more pasties. They come in the following four delicious flavors:

Beef: Potatoes, Beef, Onions, Rutabaga, Beef Suet, Salt, Pepper, Lard Crust (Wheat Flour, Lard, Water, Salt) 
Chicken: Chicken, Potatoes, Carrots, Onions, Rutabaga, Celery, Chicken Base, Curry, Pepper, Lard Crust (Wheat Flour, Lard, Water, Salt)
Pork: Potatoes, Pork, Pork Sausage, Onions, Celery, Salt, Cinnamon, Cloves, Lard Crust (Wheat Flour, Lard, Water, Salt)
Vegetable: Potatoes, Eggs, Carrots, Green Beans, Onions, Pepperjack Cheese, Rutabaga, Celery, Honey Mustard, Garlic, Pepper, Salt, Butter Crust (Wheat Flour, Butter, Water, Salt)

Pasty pick-up will take place on March 5, Saint Piran's Day, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the museum. Saint Piran is the patron saint of tin miners and one of the patron saints of Cornwall. Pasties can be ordered online at www.mining.jamison.museum/pasty, by contacting a board member (listed at www.mining.jamison.museum/leadership), or by calling museum staff at (608) 348-3301. 

For additional information or other assistance, please phone (608) 348-3301 or email museums@platteville.org.