Supper-tables were placed on one side of the hall; and my mother and sisters, and all the females in the establishment, were engaged for some days in manufacturing pasties, tarts, and jellies; while at the same time sundry pieces of beef, ham, turkeys, and poultry were boiling and roasting at the kitchen fire.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
At midday you will see the bairns running along the street munching great pasties-a Cornish specialty-made with bits of meat and onion and potato in a cover of paste, and the pasty seems to be the school-child's usual dinner.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
Where, among the wooden fowls and "impracticable" flagons, were to be seen very imposing pasties and flasks of champaigne, littered together in most admirable disorder.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)