A Proper Job Croust Time
Shot taken for Saturday Self Challenge 13/08/2022 -- Food & Drink
As stated before , I am not one for taking shots of food and bunging them online like so many do nowadays .However a challenge is a challenge so here goes , I could not think what to do until my wife and then daughter suggested a Cornish Pasty .
Sounds good but I could not just post a supermarket pasty and a Ginsters would not have done at all .
So something I have never done before I ordered half a dozen on line from a company that does the job in Kernow and has the little tin mine logo on their products ( just like a kite mark to assure that it is Cornish made - albeit food , art or any other similar product ) .To top it off . a bottle of "Proper Job " & a "Doom Bar " - both brewed in Cornwall by St. Austell Ales and Sharps brewery respectively , for the shot I used the Proper Job Ale .
Consumers like to know they’re getting a genuine Cornish pasty – well now they can. Just like Champagne, the Cornish pasty enjoys a protected status under EU Protected Food Names legislation; so only a pasty made to a specific recipe in Cornwall and made of Cornish ingredients can be called a “Cornish Pasty”.
Fake products can therefore no longer devalue the great reputation of the genuine Cornish pasty.
This allows producers of protected products to be able to continue to add that extra value and eating quality
through the use of top class ingredients and craft skills .
Cornish pasties are “d” shaped and crimped on the side (never on top) and contain potato, swede, onion and beef
with seasoning to taste, primarily salt and pepper and never carrot !!
And so to the shot , it had to be based around a hard rock mine ( tin/copper ) from Cornwall , so a B&W shot of a couple of mines from Botallack - Wheal Owles with Wheal Edward in the far background - the more famous Crowns are down below to the right !!
Of course the parts in clolour are my food and drink for the SSC with the mono just as a fitting backdrop .
Oh , you ask what is "Croust "?
"Croust time" is really "lunch time" but the actual time varied. The reason for this was that down in the tin mine, you couldn't
see the sun so you didn't know the time at all.
Up top ( when you come to grass ), out of the mine, posh people in Cornwall call it "dinner time" and croust-time for them is in the middle of the morning still.
All in all a very challenging challenge , first of all getting the pasties here in time ( The Cornish Hamper Store did the job with an overnight delivery and I must say the pasty was indeed a " Proper Job " I would recommend them !! ) . Well out there taking shots with the camera on the tripod holding the pasty and the ale around the camera like a hug and I was eating as I went !! Now the computer has been away to load a new one so I have been without the essential Serif Craft Artist to work on the shot . Computer up and running and woe is me - the bottle of ale was too close in colour to the background and the cut-out studio could not isolate the bottle without taking chunks out of it . Well then another rapid shot was needed - holding the bottle up the a kitchen cupboard and taking a quick snap - at least it worked this time .
So a very short song called " Proper Job
And of course - Crimping a Pasty
A Proper Job Croust Time
Shot taken for Saturday Self Challenge 13/08/2022 -- Food & Drink
As stated before , I am not one for taking shots of food and bunging them online like so many do nowadays .However a challenge is a challenge so here goes , I could not think what to do until my wife and then daughter suggested a Cornish Pasty .
Sounds good but I could not just post a supermarket pasty and a Ginsters would not have done at all .
So something I have never done before I ordered half a dozen on line from a company that does the job in Kernow and has the little tin mine logo on their products ( just like a kite mark to assure that it is Cornish made - albeit food , art or any other similar product ) .To top it off . a bottle of "Proper Job " & a "Doom Bar " - both brewed in Cornwall by St. Austell Ales and Sharps brewery respectively , for the shot I used the Proper Job Ale .
Consumers like to know they’re getting a genuine Cornish pasty – well now they can. Just like Champagne, the Cornish pasty enjoys a protected status under EU Protected Food Names legislation; so only a pasty made to a specific recipe in Cornwall and made of Cornish ingredients can be called a “Cornish Pasty”.
Fake products can therefore no longer devalue the great reputation of the genuine Cornish pasty.
This allows producers of protected products to be able to continue to add that extra value and eating quality
through the use of top class ingredients and craft skills .
Cornish pasties are “d” shaped and crimped on the side (never on top) and contain potato, swede, onion and beef
with seasoning to taste, primarily salt and pepper and never carrot !!
And so to the shot , it had to be based around a hard rock mine ( tin/copper ) from Cornwall , so a B&W shot of a couple of mines from Botallack - Wheal Owles with Wheal Edward in the far background - the more famous Crowns are down below to the right !!
Of course the parts in clolour are my food and drink for the SSC with the mono just as a fitting backdrop .
Oh , you ask what is "Croust "?
"Croust time" is really "lunch time" but the actual time varied. The reason for this was that down in the tin mine, you couldn't
see the sun so you didn't know the time at all.
Up top ( when you come to grass ), out of the mine, posh people in Cornwall call it "dinner time" and croust-time for them is in the middle of the morning still.
All in all a very challenging challenge , first of all getting the pasties here in time ( The Cornish Hamper Store did the job with an overnight delivery and I must say the pasty was indeed a " Proper Job " I would recommend them !! ) . Well out there taking shots with the camera on the tripod holding the pasty and the ale around the camera like a hug and I was eating as I went !! Now the computer has been away to load a new one so I have been without the essential Serif Craft Artist to work on the shot . Computer up and running and woe is me - the bottle of ale was too close in colour to the background and the cut-out studio could not isolate the bottle without taking chunks out of it . Well then another rapid shot was needed - holding the bottle up the a kitchen cupboard and taking a quick snap - at least it worked this time .
So a very short song called " Proper Job
And of course - Crimping a Pasty