Prawn Salad with Cucumber.— Cut up and cook three
dozen fillets of cucumber. Stop cooking them as soon as
you can pass a trussing needle into each fillet easily, and
drain them on a sieve. Let them get quite cold, and cut
them into quarter-inch squares. Pick twelve large prawns
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SHELL-FISH
from their shells, and cut them into similar pieces. With these
fill six darioles, mixing cucumber and fish fairly. Melt half a
pint of aspic jelly, put it in a howl over ice and whisk into it
half a gill (two tablespoonfuls) of oil and a dessertspoonful of
vinegar, thus making a mayonnaise collee, adding the yolk of one
egg✪ Prawn Salad with Cucumber to colour it. As soon as it attains the consistency of
smooth cream pour it immediately into the darioles, setting the
prawn and cucumber squares in it over ice. Turn them out
when required, and dish in a circle with a garnish of cress or
curled endive. \_Wyverni] Of course shrimps can be substi-
tuted for prawns, using a larger quantity.
Cockles. — Cockles, unlike oysters and mussels, are found
buried in sand, and not fixed to rocks. Cockles are provided
with a large and very elastic foot, which enables them to hide
quickly in the moist sand, or if frightened to reappear and
escape with great rapidity. Cockles are found on most sandy
shores, and in very remote times were even more eaten than
they are now, if we may judge by the mounds of their shells
called “ kjokkenmoddings ” still existing in many countries.
Cockles are found in great abundance on many parts of the
British coasts ; the shore near Swansea produces enormous
quantities, and at Starcross, near Exmouth, there are “ cockle-
gardens,” where the Cockles artificially reared are said by the
proprietors to have a finer flavour than those found in the
sands. But Morecambe Bay, on the Lancashire coast, is best
known, not only for its Cockles but for the rusks run by those
who gather them. On that shore the tide recedes from five
to seven miles, leaving “ shifting sands ” so treacherous that
if the most experienced of the guides retained by the Ducby
of Lancaster were to draw a chart of the safer tracks they
would all have changed before the ink on his paper was dry.
It is said that no “ Cockier ” there ever dies in his bed — he
is either swallowed up in the quicksands or drowned by the
“ bore-wave,” that is, a huge wave which, sweeping in silently
and without warning, covers the sands with incredible rapidity
to the depth of seventeen feet. Yet such is the fascination of
that shore that those who “ follow the sands,” as the cocklers
call it, never care for other fishing.
The Cockles are found a little below the sand, and are
COCKLES
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jerked out with pronged forks. This is done in perfect silence
for fear of frightening the Cockles away.
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Prawn Salad with Cucumber.— Cut up and cook three dozen fillets of cucumber. Stop cooking them as soon as you can pass a trussing needle into each fillet easily, and drain them on a sieve. Let them get quite cold, and cut them into quarter-inch squares. Pick twelve large prawns from their shells, and cut them into similar pieces. With these fill six darioles, mixing cucumber and fish fairly. Melt half a pint of aspic jelly, put it in a bowl over ice and whisk into it half a gill (two tablespoonfuls) of oil and a dessertspoonful of vinegar, thus making a mayonnaise collee, adding the yolk of one egg to colour it. As soon as it attains the consistency of smooth cream pour it immediately into the darioles, setting the prawn and cucumber squares in it over ice. Turn them out when required, and dish in a circle with a garnish of cress or curled endive. [Wyvern.] Of course shrimps can be substituted for prawns, using a larger quantity..
Cockles. — Cockles, unlike oysters and mussels, are found buried in sand, and not fixed to rocks. Cockles are provided with a large and very elastic foot, which enables them to hide quickly in the moist sand, or if frightened to reappear and escape with great rapidity. Cockles are found on most sandy shores, and in very remote times were even more eaten than they are now, if we may judge by the mounds of their shells called “ kjokkenmoddings ” still existing in many countries.
Cockles are found in great abundance on many parts of the British coasts ; the shore near Swansea produces enormous quantities, and at Starcross, near Exmouth, there are “ cocklegardens,” where the Cockles artificially reared are said by the proprietors to have a finer flavour than those found in the sands. But Morecambe Bay, on the Lancashire coast, is best known, not only for its Cockles but for the risks run by those who gather them. On that shore the tide recedes from five to seven miles, leaving “ shifting sands ” so treacherous that if the most experienced of the guides retained by the Ducby of Lancaster were to draw a chart of the safer tracks they would all have changed before the ink on his paper was dry. It is said that no “ Cockier ” there ever dies in his bed — he is either swallowed up in the quicksands or drowned by the “ bore-wave,” that is, a huge wave which, sweeping in silently and without warning, covers the sands with incredible rapidity to the depth of seventeen feet. Yet such is the fascination of that shore that those who “ follow the sands,” as the cocklers call it, never care for other fishing.
The Cockles are found a little below the sand, and are
COCKLES
n 9
jerked out with pronged forks. This is done in perfect silence for fear of frightening the Cockles away.
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