# The best Cornish foods

Cornish pasties, cream teas, stargazy pie, saffron cake and Cornish Yarg: the food of England's far southwest.

- 158 votes · 17 items
- Oct 13, 2019 · knitter.slow
- https://even.best/en/l/3755/the-best-cornish-foods

## Top 17

1. **Cornish cream tea** (17 · ▲18 ▼1) — Scones with jam first and clotted cream on top.
2. **Cornish pasty** (12 · ▲13 ▼1) — Pastry filled with beef, potato, swede and onion, with protected status.
3. **Clotted cream** (10 · ▲13 ▼3) — Thick, rich Cornish cream.
4. **Heavy cake (hevva cake)** (8 · ▲10 ▼2) — Flat fruit cake from fishing villages.
5. **Saffron cake** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — Saffron-scented fruit bun.
6. **Hog's pudding** (7 · ▲9 ▼2) — White pudding of pork and cereal.
7. **Cornish fairings** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Crunchy ginger biscuits.
8. **Cornish cider** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — Apple cider from the Cornish orchards.
9. **Stargazy pie** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Pilchard pie with fish heads poking through the crust, for Tom Bawcock's Eve.
10. **Cornish Yarg** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Cow's milk cheese wrapped in nettles.
11. **Cornish ice cream** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Ice cream made with clotted cream.
12. **Squab pie** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Mutton and apple pie.
13. **Cornish fudge** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Butter fudge.
14. **Pilchards** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Newlyn's traditional sardines.
15. **Cornish mead** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Honey wine.
16. **Spingo** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Historic ale from Helston.
17. **Cornish Blue** (0 · ▲3 ▼3) — Award-winning blue cheese.

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