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Cockle Cakes (Welsh) Recipe

Name: Cockle Cakes (Welsh)
Ingredients: 1 quart Cockles 1 ounce butter; 1 ounce Oatmeal 1 egg Cooking fat 2 pt water; 3 ounce Flour salt

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Servings: 4

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TEISENNAU RHYTHON Leave the cockles to stand in slightly salted water sprinkled with oatmeal overnight. Drain and scrub thoroughly to remove grit and dirt. Place in a saucepan ot salted water and boil for 3 min till the shells open. When coo! remove the coekles from their shells. Rub the butter into the flour and add in a healthy pinch of salt. Separate the egg yolk and beat lightly. Add in the egg yolk and water to the flour and beat till the batter is smooth. Heat the cooking fat in a deep pan and using a spoon dip the cockles one at a time in the batter and drop into the fat. When golden and crisp all over, remove from fat. Serve with brown bread and slices of lemon.

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