Peter Morris was a Cornish butcher
who purveyed locally reared meats to a select clientele
in North Cornwall since 1970. Since his death the family business
continue to purchase animals
on the 'hoof' either directly on local farms or at a livestock markets
such as Truro Market in Cornwall. They are proud of their reputation
and steadfastly refuse to purchases intensively reared animals or
any that have been fed on GM foodstuffs.
Around 20 years ago, the butcher's shop started selling pasties
that were made by an old lady in St Columb to her secret recipe.
The pasties always sold out within hours of being displayed in the
shop and when the old lady decided to give up her small 'kitchen
stove' business she gifted the recipe to Peter Morris. The recipe
is today held in the safe of the family solicitor.
Peter started to make the pasties in a small production unit adjacent
to his main butcher's business in the ancient Cornish town of St
Columb. Very soon demand outstripped the amount of pasties that could
be produced and Peter secured a manufacturing unit on the town's
small industrial estate. Such was the demand for the pasties that
in addition to them being sold from Peter's own butcher's shops the
first dedicated Morris pasty shop opened in Gover Lane, Newquay ten
years ago. The family now has five outlets of their own selling Morris's
pasties and has developed a cafe concept around the pasty sales.
The corner stone of Pasty+ concept is, therefore, a truly handmade
Cornish pasty which is manufactured by an organisation that has over
30 years of experience in selling quality foodstuffs and produce
to a discerning clientele.
