Ingredients
8 oz flour
1 egg
1 tbsp vegetable oil
8 oz cockles or clams (shelled)
2 tbsp (heaped) chopped parsley
1 oil for frying
8 oz prepared laverbread, -or- dried nori, reconsti
1/2 lemon (juice only)
Directions
Sieve the flour. Separate the egg. Work the yolk and oil into the
flour and beat in the water gradually until you have a thick batter.
Whisk and leave aside for 30 minutes. Whisk the egg-white until stiff
and stir into the batter. Add thc cockles, then salt, parsley and
herbs as necessary. Heat two fingers of oil in a heavy pan. Deep-fry
the batter in spoonfuls until the cakes are golden and crisp. Heat
up the laverbread with the lemon juice. Serve piping hot, with
wedges of lemon.
Source: Elisabeth Luard in "Country Living" (British), April 1989.
Typed for you by Karen Mintzias
Servings: 4 servings
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Categories: Cake; Dessert; Fish; Seafood
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