Cornish people an important element of the Cornish diet, but international commercial fishing was also well established by the 16th century, and tons of pilchards were exported from Cornwall to France, Italy and Spain every year. Stargazy pie is an occasional festive Cornish dish with the heads of fish standing on their tails, originally pilchards, piercing a pastry crust. The saffron bun, also known as the tea treat bun, is a sweet bread with its origins in Cornwall. With its comparatively small, rural population, major contribution by the Cornish to national sport in the United Kingdom has been limited. There are no
Battalia pie In her 1727 cookery book "The Compleat Housewife", Eliza Smith describes battalia pie as follows: Smith's recipe was republished in Michael Willis's 1831 "Cookery Made Easy", and in Anne Walbank Buckland's 1893 book, "Our Viands: Whence they Come and How they are Cooked". The politician and author Benjamin Disraeli describes an English dinner of the previous century in his 1837 novel "Venetia", with Battalia pies were recreated at Naworth Castle in 2006 and at Westport House, Ireland in 2015. Battalia pie In English cuisine, battalia pie (obsolete spelling battaglia pye) is a large game pie, or occasionally a fish pie,